can we pollute the moon?
what are the side effects?
pollution is bad for the ecosystem and environment,
but the moon has none of these;
there isn't even an atmosphere to destory.
we could use the moon for all sorts of things;
factories, power generation, and trash dump.
perhaps the trash might contribute to an atmosphere and life.
taking this another step further,
we could have huge power plants on mars with natural cooling
and not need to regulate radiation or other harmful output.
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there seems to be nothing available out there... what sort of engine will hl2 use? quake3? castlewolfenstein? doom3? ut2k? when will counterstrike 2 follow?
can anybody debunk appendix B?
i have placed it here in its entirety:
Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax
In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Brian Kernighan admitted that the Unix operating system and C programming language created by them is an elaborate April Fools prank kept alive for more than 20 years. Speaking at the recent UnixWorld Software Development Forum, Thompson revealed the following:
In 1969, AT&T had just terminated their work with the GE/AT&T
Multics project. Brian and I had just started working with an early
release of Pascal from Professor Nichlaus Wirth's ETH labs in Swit-zerland,
and we were impressed with its elegant simplicity and
power. Dennis had just finished reading Bored of the Rings, a hilari-ous
National Lampoon parody of the great Tolkien Lord of the Rings
trilogy. As a lark, we decided to do parodies of the Multics environ-ment
and Pascal. Dennis and I were responsible for the operating
environment. We looked at Multics and designed the new system to
be as complex and cryptic as possible to maximize casual users' frus-tration
levels, calling it Unix as a parody of Multics, as well as other
more risque allusions.
Then Dennis and Brian worked on a truly warped version of Pascal,
called "A." When we found others were actually trying to create real
programs with A, we quickly added additional cryptic features and
evolved into B, BCPL, and finally C. We stopped when we got a
clean compile on the following syntax:
To think that modern programmers would try to use a language that
allowed such a statement was beyond our comprehension! We actu-ally
thought of selling this to the Soviets to set their computer science
progress back 20 or more years. Imagine our surprise when AT&T
and other U.S. corporations actually began trying to use Unix and C!
It has taken them 20 years to develop enough expertise to generate
even marginally useful applications using this 1960s technological
parody, but we are impressed with the tenacity (if not common sense)
of the general Unix and C programmer.
In any event, Brian, Dennis, and I have been working exclusively in
Lisp on the Apple Macintosh for the past few years and feel really
guilty about the chaos, confusion, and truly bad programming that
has resulted from our silly prank so long ago.
Major Unix and C vendors and customers, including AT&T, Microsoft,
Hewlett-Packard, GTE, NCR, and DEC have refused comment at this time.
Borland International, a leading vendor of Pascal and C tools, including the
popular Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo C++, stated they had suspected
this for a number of years and would continue to enhance their Pascal prod-ucts
and halt further efforts to develop C. An IBM spokesman broke into
uncontrolled laughter and had to postpone a hastily convened news confer-ence
concerning the fate of the RS/6000, merely stating "Workplace OS
will be available Real Soon Now." In a cryptic statement, Professor Wirth
of the ETH Institute and father of the Pascal, Modula 2, and Oberon struc-tured
languages, merely stated that P. T. Barnum was correct.
get a nice 64-bit system (hello, athlon64), slap 8 or so gigs of ram and a four-disk striped raid array on it. half of the filesystem would use 2gb on each disk as a database, to be updated twice a day. the other half would be on that ram, in the form of diffs on the hdds. on top of this, you put a more intelligent system to handle things like downloads (go direct to hdd) or swap (never go to hdd).
this would be interesting for test machines, which would never sync ram to hdd, or multi-user full-access boxes, which could have a distinct bank of ram for each concurrent user.
all we need is for somebody to design the filesystem, which should probably look like cvs and ext3; think of it as a journalled ramdisk filesystem with the journal kept on hdd.
bennu isn't as recognizable;
they might as well make up a name for a similar effect.
(though i love ancient egyptian names, like mine for instance.)
i still like the minotaur name and its slogan "half man, half bull."
perhaps Argos and Minotaur would be a better solution
(Argos being the name of the ship sailed by Jason in his search for the Golden Fleece).
there are no OSS projects named argos, but there is an accounting software company with that name.
*zilla names seem to have been phased out. whatever happened to the Godzilla vs AOL battle?
assuming it wasn't lost, i would much prefer a suggeston posted to mozillazine
to use Firezilla and Thunderzilla,
which would pave the way for other forces of nature such as smokezilla, icezilla, quakezilla, and tidezilla.
SYDNEY
Imagine you can play God and fiddle with the settings of the great cosmic machine. Turn this knob and make electrons a bit heavier; twiddle that one and make gravitation a trifle weaker. What would be the effect? The universe would look very different -- so different, in fact, that there wouldn't be anyone around to see the result, because the existence of life depends rather critically on the actual settings that Mother Nature selected.
Scientists have long puzzled over this rather contrived state of affairs. Why is nature so ingeniously, one might even say suspiciously, friendly to life? What do the laws of physics care about life and consciousness that they should conspire to make a hospitable universe? It's almost as if a Grand Designer had it all figured out.
The fashionable scientific response to this cosmic conundrum is to invoke the so-called multiverse theory. The idea here is that what we have hitherto been calling "the universe" is nothing of the sort. It is but a small component within a vast assemblage of other universes that together make up a "multiverse."
It is but a small extra step to conjecture that each universe comes with its own knob settings. They could be random, as if the endless succession of universes is the product of the proverbial monkey at a typewriter. Almost all universes are incompatible with life, and so go unseen and unlamented. Only in that handful where, by chance, the settings are just right will life emerge; then beings such as ourselves will marvel at how propitiously fine-tuned their universe is.
But we would be wrong to attribute this suitability to design. It is entirely the result of self-selection: we simply could not exist in biologically hostile universes, no matter how many there were.
This idea of multiple universes, or multiple realities, has been around in philosophical circles for centuries. The scientific justification for it, however, is new.
One argument stems from the "big bang" theory: according to the standard model, shortly after the universe exploded into existence about 14 billion years ago, it suddenly jumped in size by an enormous factor. This "inflation" can best be understood by imagining that the observable universe is, relatively speaking, a tiny blob of space buried deep within a vast labyrinth of interconnected cosmic regions. Under this theory, if you took a God's-eye view of the multiverse, you would see big bangs aplenty generating a tangled melee of universes enveloped in a superstructure of frenetically inflating space. Though individual universes may live and die, the multiverse is forever.
Some scientists now suspect that many traditional laws of physics might in fact be merely local bylaws, restricted to limited regions of space. Many physicists now think that there are more than three spatial dimensions, for example, since certain theories of subatomic matter are neater in 9 or 10 dimensions. So maybe three is a lucky number that just happened by accident in our cosmic neighborhood -- other universes may have five or seven dimensions.
Life would probably be impossible with more (or less) than three dimensions to work with, so our seeing three is then no surprise. Similar arguments apply to other supposedly fixed properties of the cosmos, such as the strengths of the fundamental forces or the masses of the various subatomic particles. Perhaps these parameters were all fluke products of cosmic luck, and our exquisitely friendly "universe" is but a minute oasis of fecundity amid a sterile space-time desert.
How seriously can we take this explanation for the friendliness of nature? Not very, I think. For a start, how is the existence
Arkeia is a powerful one, but not free software. there are two versions, a free one for small offices and a more powerful costly one....quick browse of the site does not reveal the free version, i don't think it exists anymore for 5.x (maybe i am not recalling correctly).
anyway, arkeia can back up windows, linux, unix, and mac osx.
much of what testers examine is not top-rated games. for example, i tested a large number of kids' games (far more than the other, more fun/challenging and graphic ones). i may not be typical among testers, though; my company repackaged and distributed games over the internet, so i tested everything from unreal tournament, theif 3, and civilization II to tonka's garage and learn windows 98. most of testing is non-sequential; when i tested evercrack (err, i mean everquest), i didn't keep the same character for too long. essentially a tester's job is to break a program.
What do they do as a hobby? Accounting, maybe?
i was kind of known for "testing" ebay while at work, as it was my only internet connection and i was growing/selling my magic collection.
As to a real hobby, we would play speed bughouse (team chess) during lunch and Dungeons and Dragons after work on days we didn't hit the bar down the street (on the company of course)
(a bit off topic) realtime hardware hdd encryption
on
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· Score: -1, Offtopic
I've had a epiphany, you genuinely believe that Open Source is so good it is worth breaking stuff that works in order to have it, don't you?
yes, in a way, that is what i am asking. i am encouraging people to try to bring the open standards up to par with the current closed standards. if people never did this kind of thing, mozilla would still be a piece of shit, as would gaim, and almost every OSS project.
I see it now, this is why I am a failure at getting Linux on my Laptop; a disturbing lack of faith that keeps me going back to Win2K just because I want the darn thing to work.
as to linux, it is just different and takes some getting used to. it has fewer faults than windows, but you are used to the windows problems. hang on there, and perhaps try the next version of debian, which will have a more friendly installer among other things.
If they used SVG, people using the official Mozilla builds wouldn't be able to view it. you are correct.
How well do you think that would go over? Everyone would be crying about how they were locking out open-source browsers.
here, i disagree; initially, there would be a hurdle, yes. but then people would see a need for further development and lend a hand. croczilla isn't as far from ready (for alpha/beta, perhaps to integrate into moz1.4a) as people may think.
the main reason I've taken the time to mention SVG here is because it gives the recommendation some visibility amongst those who can help OSS implementations like croczilla out there.
flash started the same way, but it is a propietary standard. i would much rather use a propietary plug-in that implements an open standard than a propietary plug-in that uses its own closed standard.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an open-standard alternative to Flash.
it is a W3C recommendation.
there is a partially-implemented SVG native plugin for mozilla.
Adobe has a fully functional SVG plugin.
sites like homestarrunner.com could really boost SVG acceptance. if anybody out there is looking at homestarrunner.com as a model by which to base their plans for a similar site, please consider SVG!
She alone could accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all.
this seems to have nothing to do with either the story nor my original post about propoganda.
do you think the investigator was morally correct in lying to get the information he wanted? it's a fine line and i don't think it is usually justified (like in this case).
btw, the united states supreme court has ruled that it is okay for cops to lie in questioning; "the ends justify the means."
oh, and ianal.
rather near the border of cuba, america has radio brodcasts of pro-america (capitalism, democracy, etc) and anti-castro (cuba, communist, socialist, etc) propoganda including all sorts of subversive songs and talk, all illegal to broadcast in cuba. the stations are rather popular, too.
(here is the image i am talking about) ...just wondering why they would choose a picture of mut (amon-re's wife) with the double-crown of egypt (only a king of a united upper and lower egypt can wear that).
the double-crown is symbolized by the bowling-pin (lower egypt) overlapping the chair (upper egypt). i might have those hats backwards, and it is usually the chair that overlaps the pin.
i don't know much about mut either... i'm not a scholar of ancient egypt, it's just a hobby (my username is that of a curved egyptian sword).
how about sites that think mozilla can't render something?
nothing quite as annoying as "you need Internet Explorer 5+ or Netscape 6.2.2+ to view this site" ...especially when mozilla 1.3a gets blocked but netscape 6.2.2 doesn't!
solution: some browsers allow you to change the userAgent. in mozilla, the prefbar plugin allows this (among other things).
most sites still need to confirm that an email address exists, but many of them deliver plain-text passwords.
pgp keys could solve this, if tied to a certified third-party the way they are supposed to be. they could (should) eventually replace passwords altogether, with or without a period of secondary usage (secondary password, instead of maiden name).
problem is most people (even a large number of/. readers) don't have keys, and many who do (like myself) have not bothered to register them with big validation groups.
Slashdot Mirror
AV320 is 4.4 x 3.2 x 1.2 inches, 12.5 ounces
palm tungston is 4.8 x 3.1 x 0.7 inches, 6.3 ounces
apple ipod is 4.1 x 2.4 x 0.6 inches, 5.6 ounces
playing movies is nice, but not at twice the depth and weight.
sorry, that's too heavy and too deep.
all i want is a touchscreen, good sound output, and 5+gb storage.
manage it with a real OS (like palm, linux, even winCE) and you'll have my money.
that jab got me thinking...
can we pollute the moon?
what are the side effects?
pollution is bad for the ecosystem and environment,
but the moon has none of these;
there isn't even an atmosphere to destory.
we could use the moon for all sorts of things;
factories, power generation, and trash dump.
perhaps the trash might contribute to an atmosphere and life.
taking this another step further,
we could have huge power plants on mars with natural cooling
and not need to regulate radiation or other harmful output.
so it can't talk about tetris, doom, civilization, simcity,
or compare with console games (nintendo came out when, 1986?).
so when it discusses violence, think violent like pac-man.
yeah, i just figured that out; google cache gets around the filtering, thus it has been blocked as a loop hole.
internet way-back machine (archive.org) is not listed at all.
so this isn't going to be Linux Kernel 3.0
(as previously reported on slashdot back in september)
there seems to be nothing available out there...
what sort of engine will hl2 use? quake3? castlewolfenstein? doom3? ut2k?
when will counterstrike 2 follow?
i have placed it here in its entirety:
Creators Admit C, Unix Were Hoax
In an announcement that has stunned the computer industry, Ken Thompson, Dennis Ritchie, and Brian Kernighan admitted that the Unix operating system and C programming language created by them is an elaborate April Fools prank kept alive for more than 20 years. Speaking at the recent UnixWorld Software Development Forum, Thompson revealed the following:
Major Unix and C vendors and customers, including AT&T, Microsoft, Hewlett-Packard, GTE, NCR, and DEC have refused comment at this time. Borland International, a leading vendor of Pascal and C tools, including the popular Turbo Pascal, Turbo C, and Turbo C++, stated they had suspected this for a number of years and would continue to enhance their Pascal prod-ucts and halt further efforts to develop C. An IBM spokesman broke into uncontrolled laughter and had to postpone a hastily convened news confer-ence concerning the fate of the RS/6000, merely stating "Workplace OS will be available Real Soon Now." In a cryptic statement, Professor Wirth of the ETH Institute and father of the Pascal, Modula 2, and Oberon struc-tured languages, merely stated that P. T. Barnum was correct.In 1969, AT&T had just terminated their work with the GE/AT&T Multics project. Brian and I had just started working with an early release of Pascal from Professor Nichlaus Wirth's ETH labs in Swit-zerland, and we were impressed with its elegant simplicity and power. Dennis had just finished reading Bored of the Rings, a hilari-ous National Lampoon parody of the great Tolkien Lord of the Rings trilogy. As a lark, we decided to do parodies of the Multics environ-ment and Pascal. Dennis and I were responsible for the operating environment. We looked at Multics and designed the new system to be as complex and cryptic as possible to maximize casual users' frus-tration levels, calling it Unix as a parody of Multics, as well as other more risque allusions.
Then Dennis and Brian worked on a truly warped version of Pascal, called "A." When we found others were actually trying to create real programs with A, we quickly added additional cryptic features and evolved into B, BCPL, and finally C. We stopped when we got a clean compile on the following syntax:
To think that modern programmers would try to use a language that allowed such a statement was beyond our comprehension! We actu-ally thought of selling this to the Soviets to set their computer science progress back 20 or more years. Imagine our surprise when AT&T and other U.S. corporations actually began trying to use Unix and C! It has taken them 20 years to develop enough expertise to generate even marginally useful applications using this 1960s technological parody, but we are impressed with the tenacity (if not common sense) of the general Unix and C programmer.
In any event, Brian, Dennis, and I have been working exclusively in Lisp on the Apple Macintosh for the past few years and feel really guilty about the chaos, confusion, and truly bad programming that has resulted from our silly prank so long ago.
ACM is a wonderful organization to belong to,
and there is a women's division that supports student chapters.
Here's the details on setting this up.
get a nice 64-bit system (hello, athlon64),
slap 8 or so gigs of ram and a four-disk striped raid array on it.
half of the filesystem would use 2gb on each disk as a database,
to be updated twice a day.
the other half would be on that ram, in the form of diffs on the hdds.
on top of this, you put a more intelligent system
to handle things like downloads (go direct to hdd)
or swap (never go to hdd).
this would be interesting for test machines,
which would never sync ram to hdd,
or multi-user full-access boxes,
which could have a distinct bank of ram for each concurrent user.
all we need is for somebody to design the filesystem,
which should probably look like cvs and ext3;
think of it as a journalled ramdisk filesystem
with the journal kept on hdd.
bennu isn't as recognizable;
they might as well make up a name for a similar effect.
(though i love ancient egyptian names, like mine for instance.)
i still like the minotaur name and its slogan "half man, half bull."
perhaps Argos and Minotaur would be a better solution
(Argos being the name of the ship sailed by Jason in his search for the Golden Fleece).
there are no OSS projects named argos, but there is an accounting software company with that name.
*zilla names seem to have been phased out. whatever happened to the Godzilla vs AOL battle?
assuming it wasn't lost, i would much prefer a suggeston posted to mozillazine
to use Firezilla and Thunderzilla,
which would pave the way for other forces of nature such as
smokezilla, icezilla, quakezilla, and tidezilla.
A Brief History of the Multiverse
By PAUL DAVIES
New York Times, April 12, 2003
http://www.nytimes.com/2003/04/12/opinion/12DAVI.h tml?pagewanted=print&position=top
SYDNEY
Imagine you can play God and fiddle with the settings of the great cosmic machine. Turn this knob and make electrons a bit heavier; twiddle that one and make gravitation a trifle weaker. What would be the effect? The universe would look very different -- so different, in fact, that there wouldn't be anyone around to see the result, because the existence of life depends rather critically on the actual settings that Mother Nature selected.
Scientists have long puzzled over this rather contrived state of affairs. Why is nature so ingeniously, one might even say suspiciously, friendly to life? What do the laws of physics care about life and consciousness that they should conspire to make a hospitable universe? It's almost as if a Grand Designer had it all figured out.
The fashionable scientific response to this cosmic conundrum is to invoke the so-called multiverse theory. The idea here is that what we have hitherto been calling "the universe" is nothing of the sort. It is but a small component within a vast assemblage of other universes that together make up a "multiverse."
It is but a small extra step to conjecture that each universe comes with its own knob settings. They could be random, as if the endless succession of universes is the product of the proverbial monkey at a typewriter. Almost all universes are incompatible with life, and so go unseen and unlamented. Only in that handful where, by chance, the settings are just right will life emerge; then beings such as ourselves will marvel at how propitiously fine-tuned their universe is.
But we would be wrong to attribute this suitability to design. It is entirely the result of self-selection: we simply could not exist in biologically hostile universes, no matter how many there were.
This idea of multiple universes, or multiple realities, has been around in philosophical circles for centuries. The scientific justification for it, however, is new.
One argument stems from the "big bang" theory: according to the standard model, shortly after the universe exploded into existence about 14 billion years ago, it suddenly jumped in size by an enormous factor. This "inflation" can best be understood by imagining that the observable universe is, relatively speaking, a tiny blob of space buried deep within a vast labyrinth of interconnected cosmic regions. Under this theory, if you took a God's-eye view of the multiverse, you would see big bangs aplenty generating a tangled melee of universes enveloped in a superstructure of frenetically inflating space. Though individual universes may live and die, the multiverse is forever.
Some scientists now suspect that many traditional laws of physics might in fact be merely local bylaws, restricted to limited regions of space. Many physicists now think that there are more than three spatial dimensions, for example, since certain theories of subatomic matter are neater in 9 or 10 dimensions. So maybe three is a lucky number that just happened by accident in our cosmic neighborhood -- other universes may have five or seven dimensions.
Life would probably be impossible with more (or less) than three dimensions to work with, so our seeing three is then no surprise. Similar arguments apply to other supposedly fixed properties of the cosmos, such as the strengths of the fundamental forces or the masses of the various subatomic particles. Perhaps these parameters were all fluke products of cosmic luck, and our exquisitely friendly "universe" is but a minute oasis of fecundity amid a sterile space-time desert.
How seriously can we take this explanation for the friendliness of nature? Not very, I think. For a start, how is the existence
Arkeia is a powerful one, but not free software. there are two versions, a free one for small offices and a more powerful costly one. ...quick browse of the site does not reveal the free version, i don't think it exists anymore for 5.x (maybe i am not recalling correctly).
anyway, arkeia can back up windows, linux, unix, and mac osx.
i was a game tester back before the dot.bomb
much of what testers examine is not top-rated games. for example, i tested a large number of kids' games (far more than the other, more fun/challenging and graphic ones). i may not be typical among testers, though; my company repackaged and distributed games over the internet, so i tested everything from unreal tournament, theif 3, and civilization II to tonka's garage and learn windows 98. most of testing is non-sequential; when i tested evercrack (err, i mean everquest), i didn't keep the same character for too long. essentially a tester's job is to break a program.
What do they do as a hobby? Accounting, maybe?
i was kind of known for "testing" ebay while at work, as it was my only internet connection and i was growing/selling my magic collection.
As to a real hobby, we would play speed bughouse (team chess) during lunch and Dungeons and Dragons after work on days we didn't hit the bar down the street (on the company of course)
a friend of mine recently pointed me to
this ebay auction: Real Time IDE Hard Drive Encryption Kit (Bay)
the link has lots of pretty pictures.
i like the physical usb key that the drive bay has.
loopback seems a better solution than $50+ for this.
How many programmers does it take to screw in a lightbulb? None; it's a hardware problem.
If pro is the opposite of con, what is the opposite of progress?
I saw a woman wearing a sweat shirt with 'Guess' on it. I said, "Implants?"
If flying is so safe, why do they call the airport the terminal?
Shopping tip: You can get shoes for 85 cents at the bowling alley.
I am a nobody, and nobody is perfect; therefore I am perfect.
Two peanuts were walking down the street. One was a salted.
Every time I walk into a singles bar I can hear Mom's wise words: "Don't pick that up, you don't know where it's been!"
I've had a epiphany, you genuinely believe that Open Source is so good it is worth breaking stuff that works in order to have it, don't you?
yes, in a way, that is what i am asking. i am encouraging people to try to bring the open standards up to par with the current closed standards. if people never did this kind of thing, mozilla would still be a piece of shit, as would gaim, and almost every OSS project.
I see it now, this is why I am a failure at getting Linux on my Laptop; a disturbing lack of faith that keeps me going back to Win2K just because I want the darn thing to work.
as to linux, it is just different and takes some getting used to. it has fewer faults than windows, but you are used to the windows problems. hang on there, and perhaps try the next version of debian, which will have a more friendly installer among other things.
If they used SVG, people using the official Mozilla builds wouldn't be able to view it.
you are correct.
How well do you think that would go over? Everyone would be crying about how they were locking out open-source browsers.
here, i disagree; initially, there would be a hurdle, yes. but then people would see a need for further development and lend a hand. croczilla isn't as far from ready (for alpha/beta, perhaps to integrate into moz1.4a) as people may think.
the main reason I've taken the time to mention SVG here is because it gives the recommendation some visibility amongst those who can help OSS implementations like croczilla out there.
flash started the same way, but it is a propietary standard. i would much rather use a propietary plug-in that implements an open standard than a propietary plug-in that uses its own closed standard.
Scalable Vector Graphics (SVG) is an open-standard alternative to Flash.
it is a W3C recommendation.
there is a partially-implemented SVG native plugin for mozilla.
Adobe has a fully functional SVG plugin.
there is a Call for Participation at the SVG Open 2003 (in canada this july).
sites like homestarrunner.com could really boost SVG acceptance. if anybody out there is looking at homestarrunner.com as a model by which to base their plans for a similar site, please consider SVG!
She alone could accuse her lover, and destroy him by her confession. She denied; they insisted. She persisted in her denial. Thereupon an idea occurred to the attorney for the crown. He invented an infidelity on the part of the lover, and succeeded, by means of fragments of letters cunningly presented, in persuading the unfortunate woman that she had a rival, and that the man was deceiving her. Thereupon, exasperated by jealousy, she denounced her lover, confessed all, proved all.
this seems to have nothing to do with either the story nor my original post about propoganda.
do you think the investigator was morally correct in lying to get the information he wanted?
it's a fine line and i don't think it is usually justified (like in this case).
btw, the united states supreme court has ruled that it is okay for cops to lie in questioning; "the ends justify the means."
oh, and ianal.
rather near the border of cuba, america has radio brodcasts of pro-america (capitalism, democracy, etc) and anti-castro (cuba, communist, socialist, etc) propoganda including all sorts of subversive songs and talk, all illegal to broadcast in cuba. the stations are rather popular, too.
Google search for: web search gives the following ranks:
- google
- yahoo
- lycos
- altavista
- AlltheWeb.com
- msn search
- msn
- altavista (@digital.com)
- metacrawler
- webcrawler
and no searchking on the next TEN pages
am i missing something?
(here is the image i am talking about)
...just wondering why they would choose a picture of mut (amon-re's wife) with the double-crown of egypt (only a king of a united upper and lower egypt can wear that).
the double-crown is symbolized by the bowling-pin (lower egypt) overlapping the chair (upper egypt). i might have those hats backwards, and it is usually the chair that overlaps the pin.
i don't know much about mut either... i'm not a scholar of ancient egypt, it's just a hobby (my username is that of a curved egyptian sword).
how about sites that think mozilla can't render something?
...especially when mozilla 1.3a gets blocked but netscape 6.2.2 doesn't!
nothing quite as annoying as
"you need Internet Explorer 5+ or Netscape 6.2.2+ to view this site"
solution: some browsers allow you to change the userAgent.
in mozilla, the prefbar plugin allows this (among other things).
most sites still need to confirm that an email address exists, but many of them deliver plain-text passwords.
/. readers) don't have keys, and many who do (like myself) have not bothered to register them with big validation groups.
pgp keys could solve this, if tied to a certified third-party the way they are supposed to be. they could (should) eventually replace passwords altogether, with or without a period of secondary usage (secondary password, instead of maiden name).
problem is most people (even a large number of