For Europe RIPE always has functioned ok, sofar. Ditto for Asia's APNIC the America's have been covered by ARIN . These three bodies have made the Internet what it is today. The only one complaining seems to be the White House itself. Why would that be ? Because today press organizations still can publish stories like these ? :
Peer Relaying should never depend on the goodwill of Tier 1 ISPs. The core backbone routing infrastructure should never have to deal with problems of ISPs. an ISP should never be a carrier, and a carrier should never be a ISP.
blocking and shutting down complete networks with a/8 mask can only be seen as a act of fear.
For the people who put such blockades in place I have a alternative offering, the ultimate secure environment, in which one will be safe against any monstrous firestorm like Katrina.
There's only a major pitfall which such a environment. Once you enter it, its not that easy to get out, and its guarded and operated by men and women in white coats.
John Markoff was the NewYork Times journalist who framed Kevin Mitnick for solitary confinement for over 5 years! http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Markoff So stay clear from John Markoff, he's even worse than a government chill.
cisco is indeed down the hill, maybe not techno wise, but business/marketing wise for sure. Allowing vulnerabilities to rot and mould inside their flagship software IOS.
But don't be surprised. Cisco is not the only Moloch sized USS Enterprise Corporation, who deliberately downgrades or even _sabotages_ its own products for the cause of undermining foreign customers and businesses to illegally gather extra information (Cisco : see the story, Dell : purportedly a key logger is inside their laptops, Microsoft : Flawed EULA agreements forcing the customer to agree that Microsoft has the right to take remote measurements on any windows machine on the globe. Food and Medicine Corporations undermining the health of all their customers. The list is endless.
Its good to see a honest and experienced employee and insider of the router industry finally takes on these weird practices, like it should be done.
Oh did i forget the 7 dwarfs of Big Tabacco ? Check out movies like "The Insider". What about "Erin Brockovich" ? All mind-boggling and edged chair Hollywood productions of real stories, on how the last few honest and genuine people left take on the Atrocities to mankind by Big Industry.
This is what i call a perfect example to scare the real scientists away. This Philip Stewart dude should go into the arts section of Slate instead. This new "chart" only enhances feelings of drug addicts and students on weeds, crack or dope. Is this Stallwart dude a crackpot also?
"When I first moved to the US it was a great place but over the years it has really changed and now it seems that the only difference between al-Qaida and the americans is that the americans speak English."
A very interesting remark. Why? lately i viewed the BCC Documentary, "the Power of Nightmares", which indeed reveiled that Al-Qeida is just a name for a organisation which does not exist! the name Al-Qeida is a fabrication by the Federal US Prosecutors in order to get warrent for arrest to nail Osama Bin Laden, a.k.a. Tim Osman within the CIA.
I came across three films produced by the BBC called "The Power of Nightmares" which explain how various groups use the fear of terrorism to advance their political power. I've spent all day converting them to a smaller format so that they can be ea silly downloaded. But they are an hour long each and are about 75 megs each. They are however extraordinary and it's quite an education into the history of Islamic Terrorism and American neo conservatives. Here are the links:
Sorry for the windows (WMV) format but it allowed me to shrink the video to 1/10 it's original size. I don't think there's a copyright issue but if there is I'll wait till someone screams about it. I think the BBC would want people to see these films.
In particular the third film makes a shocking revelation. The terrorist group al-Qaeda in fact does not exist. It was made up in January of 2001 in order to prosecute Osama bin Laden in his absence. In order to prosecute bin Laden there had to be an organization like the Mafia for which he was a part of. Under the law if such an organization exists then the head of the organization can be prosecuted under the law. So in order to bring the prosecution they made up the organization and called it al-Qaeda.
But the organization is fiction. It doesn't exist. It's all a huge fraud.
After 9-11 - a terrorist act that was organized by a bin Laden aide and funded by bin Laden - Bush dug up the name al-Qaeda from the prosecutors in the New York case against him. And since then we have been in a battle against a fictional enemy. The very people who made the story up now are believing their own lies.
What I first heard about this movie I too was skeptical. I thought, "Yeah right! al-Qaeda doesn't exist - sure!" But now that I watched it, and with the other two movies providing further background, I am sitting here in shock and awe. Keep in mind that this was made by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) which is hardly some tin foil hat organization!
Here's the BBC Link that talks about the 3 films. I edited off the front part of the last two because it was identical to the first one and I wanted to save bandwidth.
If what this movie says is true then we shouldn't be able to find any al-Qaeda references in the news before the begining of 2001. So lets start hunting this up and find out where the name al-Qaeda first surfaced.
"
You really want the U.N. to take care of your currently fine working Internet? You know, the internet, where any person without much trouble can setup his own Web and Blog site? Is the current state of affairs in the Internet world not the best example of freedom of speech and expression in full action?
And now you want the U.N. to take care of that?
The same U.N. which comes in action at places, after which a couple years later the complete area is still in turmoil, people dying of AIDS, young girls forced in prostitution, the African continent at the brink of dying after 50 years of U.N. Aid, Afghanistan getting promoted to the premier export country of Opium , Heroin etc. ?
Computerized T-valves were added in 2004 into the Los Angeles water supply system to remotely facilitate customized additives into the drinking water.
Public Extermination Project
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/115676.php
by Janet C. Phelan
i get about 100 spam emails a day. What strikes me though is that none of these emails contain false or forged messages which concern or contain the domain names amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de and google.com or google.nl.
This surely gives customers a better feeling when choosing to shop and purchase through amazon and or google.
Has it all todo with protecting the reputation of ones internet domain name?
"
Now that being said, there is a second part of this, and this is really borrowing from the culture of the open source community. There is a very important role in a software company like IBM for top down managed code architecture and all that kind of good stuff. But there's also a tremendous amount of potential innovation that is locked up in the heads of the front line programmers and we try to liberate that creativity and the innovative potential of all of those people.
"
Well Mr. Heintzmann gets some homework from me. He first should write a "Hello World!" program in C, C++ or Perl, etc. After successfully completing that task, he should read his article again, and think if he is still the God of OpenSource development.
What I make out of Apple OSX going to run Intel CPU's as well?
hmm well, IMHO Billy Gates gave Steve Jobs the marching orders for this. Windows on x86 is a lost vehicle, and Billy knows it... in NASCAR racing terms : the Windows racecar is not able to leave the pits. so Apple is ordered to send in the OSX car and take the complete x86 field to its own victory. OSX != OSS
The objective? Wipe any OSS Linux alike OS from the x86 racing track?
"UPDATE: Mr. Kircaali has indeed apologised to the free software/open source community, to his editors and to Ms. Jones for publishing the article on Pamela Jones. He also stated clearly that he agreed on the fact that the article did have ethical problems. See his message here. I (Tony Mobily) talked to him on the phone about this matter and yes, his apologies are genuine and he now understands the ethical issues about the article. Reading his answers (below), it is clear that his view on the matter has changed quite a lot, and that the interview doesn't portrait his current view on the episode."
I dunno who you are, but i myself am sick and tired of people shouting around from underneath a stone, hiding in the anonymous dark wearing a mask.
I don't know the reason why PJ wants to operate in a certain level of anonymity, but i assume that her investigative reporting would be seriously harmed if anyone could see her coming from ten blocks away.
If it would harm PJ by just copying the 1st paragraph of a total weird story by O'Gara then i would of course not do such a thing. But get real, anyone planning to target PJ, wouldn't have seen O'Gara's piece of crap "writing" about PJ? I just pasted that piece, because i sense that it will soon be gone, and then no-one will know or remember why O'Gara was actually pulled from sys-con "publications". And i wanted to display what total utter sewer language was used.
Enough said, I hope PJ has found a safe place to stay with good friends.
Now that the SCO vs IBM case nears it final resolvement, and the heating wheel is getting tuned up at position 10, strange things seem to happen. So its not really that surprising that types like the Bill O'Reilly's and Ann Coulter's are being put into full powa play : They just start jerking the knees of the persons in question which are of most annoyance. It all reminds me again of that ice skating tragedy where Tonya Harding ordered her opponents knee caps to be jacked out:
Only one person in the world has ever claimed to have met her - in the pressroom at LinuxWorld in Boston complete with a Pamela Jones badge - and described her as a fortyish reddish-blonde who giggled a lot.
Oh yeah? Wonder what cold crème she uses. Pamela Jones is a 61-year-old Jehovah's Witness who lives in a shabby genteel garden apartment in desperate need of an interior decorator on a heavily trafficked commercial road at 304 North Central Avenue in Hartsdale, New York. Hartsdale is in Westchester and Westchester is IBM territory. "
Unbelievable, if anyone happens to knows PJ well, make sure the vicious O'Gara's won't get a chance to knock out PJ's knee caps.
Reading your email will hurt your I.Q. level? Thats rather weird. Here's my tale on it:
It not so much the email itself which is harmfull, but more the used email client and its environment, Operating System if you like. I use pine or mutt for reading my email, combined with an intelligent antispam program on my email server.
reading email with pine or mutt is like reading your daily headlines in ascii format. The pine program has some nice features which able you to select certain emails with a few keystrokes. So if you get a lot of emails from a certain maillinglist which start with Subject [linux-cooks] you can select them with:
; (SELECT criteria) -> T(ext) -> S(ubject) ->
String in message SUBJECT to match : [linux-cooks] [Select matched 507 messages!]
Wow thats nice, and now you save them in a folder linux-cooks:
A (APPLY command:) -> S(ave) -> SAVE 507 msgs to folder [saved-messages] : linux-cooks
next it asks if you want to delete these 507 messages... rather handy if you want to clean-up your INBOX of make it smaller quick. certainly is you can select a lot of Trash email using the ; method.
My conclusion is that using such an email client won't harm your I.Q. . On windows one uses Outlook which is a rather obsessive with taking over all key tasks from the person behind the PC. The only thing which is left out , is the viewing and reading itself.
I would describe Outlook as the email client which even holds your willy when taking a leak. Rather abusrd, but also , when taking in mind that the windows desktop with its looks, views, wizards and graphics comes pretty close to a destructive brainwash. A brainwash which is rather effective in switching off the last really functional braincells.
Everyone knows that this story http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160853 is just pure FUD. So do not feed these trollz.
I have watched the slashdot topics and stories for the last couple of weeks and i am not amused. Slashdot "Administrators" like CowboyNeal , CmdrTaco and others should know better.
Next i see slashdot polls like My money is on: The Eagles, The Patriot or The Insurgents. This just makes my stomach feel sick. Has slashdot slipped into a rats whoore house of opinions which really no-one cares about?
Ministers consider vaccination scheme. Heroin, cocaine and nicotine targeted
A radical scheme to vaccinate children against future drug addiction is being considered by ministers, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
Under the plans, doctors would immunise children at risk of becoming smokers or drug users with an injection. The scheme could operate in a similar way to the current nationwide measles, mumps and rubella vaccination programme.
Childhood immunisation would provide adults with protection from the euphoria that is experienced by users, making drugs such as heroin and cocaine pointless to take. Such vaccinations are being developed by pharmaceutical companies and are due to hit the market within two years.
The Department of Trade and Industry has set up a special project to investigate ways of using new scientific breakthroughs to combat drug and nicotine addiction.
A national anti-drug immunisation scheme is one of the proposals being put forward by the Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs project, an expert committee of scientists appointed by the Government earlier this year.
Professor David Nutt, a leading government drugs adviser who sits on the committee, told the IoS that anti-drug vaccines for children are likely to be among the panel's recommendations when it reports next March.
Professor Nutt, head of psychopharmacology at the University of Bristol and a senior member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, said: "People could be vaccinated against drugs at birth as you are against measles. You could say cocaine is more dangerous than measles, for example. It is important that there is a debate on this issue. This is a huge topic - addiction and smoking are major causes of premature death."
According to the Government's own figures, the cost of drug addiction - through related crime and health problems - to the economy is £12bn a year. There is a strong incentive for the Government to find new ways to halt spiralling addiction. Last week, the IoS revealed that cocaine use had trebled in Britain with increasing numbers of users switching to highly addictive crack cocaine.
Scientists are already conducting trials for drugs that can be used by doctors to vaccinate against cocaine, heroin and nicotine addiction.
Xenova, the British biotechnology firm, has carried out trials on an anti-cocaine vaccine which showed that 58 per cent of patients remained cocaine-free after three months.
Meanwhile, experts at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, have developed a super-virus, harmless to humans, which produces proteins that can block or reduce the effects of cocaine.
The team at Scripps tested the virus on rats by injecting it into their noses twice a day for three days.
On the fourth day, the rats were given a shot of cocaine. The researchers found that cocaine had more effect on the rats not injected with the virus than those that were. Scientists hope that the virus will help stop the cravings experienced by cocaine users for the drug by blocking the pleasure they normally associate with cocaine. This anti-drug medication is expected to be available to users within the next two years in the form of a nasal spray.
Proposals to introduce a national anti-drug vaccination programme have been given a cautious welcome by MPs and experts.
Ian Gibson, head of the Commons Science and Technology Committee, said the Government would have to carry out public consultation. "There is no reason to think this would not be a starter or beneficial," said Dr Gibson, Labour MP for Norwich North. "But... proper consultation with the public needs to happen well in advance."
David Hinchliffe, chairman of the Commons Health Committee a
and on 05 December 2004 : still no 6800 Ultra available!! :
"6800 Ultra hardly available in EU
$740 for the card that you can't buy" http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20055
If i'm not mistaken, BillG predicted that the cost of hardware can be neglected to that of software in the future. I assume he meant Microsoft software. Again $9.1 billion in sales of AMD/Intel based server hardware is not, what i would call, a neglectable deal!:)
We can read: "since the first leap second in 1972, all leap seconds have been positive and there were 22 leap seconds in the 27 years to January, 1999."
Which means after running a clock, according to _our_ standards, for 365 days, we need to manually adjust it and add 1 second. This then looks like _our_ own time standard and its clocks are ticking on a too slow rate. From which i conclude that, compared to Paris time standards, our world and planet earth is "gearing" up in speed. Indeed, i feel as if i'm loosing time every day:)
The conclusion i get from this, is that our natural surroundings are ticking faster, compared to our own standards of time.
Now there's two solutions to this problem :
1. fix our own standards of time, i.e. nature must be correct.
2. our standard of time is correct, we only need to force nature to be on time. This would be absurd however.
Now as to the leap seconds. I run several computers here, and one of them is running as my local ntpd server, which is synced to a GPS time system:
[hubble:stock]:(~)$/usr/sbin/ntpq ntpq> pe remote refid st t when poll reach delay offset jitter *ntp1.NL.net.GPS. 1 u 378 1024 277 25.086 0.125 1.103 ntpq> q [hubble:stock]:(~)$
The other computers however only run the ntpdate client every morning at 06:00h. To my surprise i see from the loggings that these computers need between 8 to 10 positive leaps seconds in 24 hours time. Thats quite a difference compared to the 1 positive leap second per Year according the Paris time standards.
What i make of this , is that either someone has been fiddling with our.GPS. clocks, or our Paris time standards are a total joke. I tend to believe the first. What does this mean? That instead of loosing 5.9 hours in a galaxy cycle of 26000 years, we actually lost 3.1 years during this galaxy cycle of 26000 years.
"Loosing" here means, positive time manually added to our own Paris clock standard.
Galaxy Cycle: "The Moon has a cycle around the Earth, the Earth has a cycle around the Sun, the Solar System has a cycle in the Milky Way," Ms Blake says. "That [the galaxy cycle] takes 26,000 years, and this particular calendar is coming to the end of that cycle. "That long cycle ends in 2012 - it's the end of a cycle, the end of a time. A new era is starting for the solar system."
Slashdot Mirror
"Waiting For The Valerie Plame Wilson Grand Jury: The Big Question Is Whether Dick Cheney Was a Target"
"2 Brits nabbed with $3 trillion in fake US fed notes"
Robert
Peer Relaying should never depend on the goodwill of Tier 1 ISPs. The core backbone routing infrastructure should never have to deal with problems of ISPs. an ISP should never be a carrier, and a carrier should never be a ISP.
Robert
blocking and shutting down complete networks with a /8 mask can only be seen as a act of fear.
For the people who put such blockades in place I have a alternative offering, the ultimate secure environment, in which one will be safe against any monstrous firestorm like Katrina.
There's only a major pitfall which such a environment. Once you enter it, its not that easy to get out, and its guarded and operated by men and women in white coats.
Robert
The DNS cache poisoning has been reported long time ago by Jon Lasser from Security Focus Online. As a response to that i created this page :
"Secure Bind 9 Example"
http://crashrecovery.org/bind9.html
Robert
John Markoff was the NewYork Times journalist who framed Kevin Mitnick for solitary confinement for over 5 years!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Markoff
So stay clear from John Markoff, he's even worse than a government chill.
Robert
cisco is indeed down the hill, maybe not techno wise, but business/marketing wise for sure. Allowing vulnerabilities to rot and mould inside their flagship software IOS.
But don't be surprised. Cisco is not the only Moloch sized USS Enterprise Corporation, who deliberately downgrades or even _sabotages_ its own products for the cause of undermining foreign customers and businesses to illegally gather extra information (Cisco : see the story, Dell : purportedly a key logger is inside their laptops, Microsoft : Flawed EULA agreements forcing the customer to agree that Microsoft has the right to take remote measurements on any windows machine on the globe. Food and Medicine Corporations undermining the health of all their customers. The list is endless.
Its good to see a honest and experienced employee and insider of the router industry finally takes on these weird practices, like it should be done.
Oh did i forget the 7 dwarfs of Big Tabacco ? Check out movies like "The Insider". What about "Erin Brockovich" ? All mind-boggling and edged chair Hollywood productions of real stories, on how the last few honest and genuine people left take on the Atrocities to mankind by Big Industry.
Robert
This is what i call a perfect example to scare the real scientists away. This Philip Stewart dude should go into the arts section of Slate instead. This new "chart" only enhances feelings of drug addicts and students on weeds, crack or dope. Is this Stallwart dude a crackpot also?
Robert
This article is a fraud, because if people in New York throw $400,= PC's in the dumpster, then this City would be bum free in no time.
Robert
A very interesting remark. Why? lately i viewed the BCC Documentary, "the Power of Nightmares", which indeed reveiled that Al-Qeida is just a name for a organisation which does not exist! the name Al-Qeida is a fabrication by the Federal US Prosecutors in order to get warrent for arrest to nail Osama Bin Laden, a.k.a. Tim Osman within the CIA.
See also :
"Al-Qaeda Is Fiction: The Organization Doesn't Exist"
"
Mark Perkel | July 4 2005
I came across three films produced by the BBC called "The Power of Nightmares" which explain how various groups use the fear of terrorism to advance their political power. I've spent all day converting them to a smaller format so that they can be ea silly downloaded. But they are an hour long each and are about 75 megs each. They are however extraordinary and it's quite an education into the history of Islamic Terrorism and American neo conservatives. Here are the links:
Baby it's Cold Outside
The Phantom Victory
The Shadows in the Cave>
Sorry for the windows (WMV) format but it allowed me to shrink the video to 1/10 it's original size. I don't think there's a copyright issue but if there is I'll wait till someone screams about it. I think the BBC would want people to see these films.
In particular the third film makes a shocking revelation. The terrorist group al-Qaeda in fact does not exist. It was made up in January of 2001 in order to prosecute Osama bin Laden in his absence. In order to prosecute bin Laden there had to be an organization like the Mafia for which he was a part of. Under the law if such an organization exists then the head of the organization can be prosecuted under the law. So in order to bring the prosecution they made up the organization and called it al-Qaeda.
But the organization is fiction. It doesn't exist. It's all a huge fraud.
After 9-11 - a terrorist act that was organized by a bin Laden aide and funded by bin Laden - Bush dug up the name al-Qaeda from the prosecutors in the New York case against him. And since then we have been in a battle against a fictional enemy. The very people who made the story up now are believing their own lies.
What I first heard about this movie I too was skeptical. I thought, "Yeah right! al-Qaeda doesn't exist - sure!" But now that I watched it, and with the other two movies providing further background, I am sitting here in shock and awe. Keep in mind that this was made by the BBC (British Broadcasting Corporation) which is hardly some tin foil hat organization!
Here's the BBC Link that talks about the 3 films. I edited off the front part of the last two because it was identical to the first one and I wanted to save bandwidth.
If what this movie says is true then we shouldn't be able to find any al-Qaeda references in the news before the begining of 2001. So lets start hunting this up and find out where the name al-Qaeda first surfaced. "
Cheers,
Robert
You really want the U.N. to take care of your currently fine working Internet? You know, the internet, where any person without much trouble can setup his own Web and Blog site? Is the current state of affairs in the Internet world not the best example of freedom of speech and expression in full action?
And now you want the U.N. to take care of that?
The same U.N. which comes in action at places, after which a couple years later the complete area is still in turmoil, people dying of AIDS, young girls forced in prostitution, the African continent at the brink of dying after 50 years of U.N. Aid, Afghanistan getting promoted to the premier export country of Opium , Heroin etc. ?
No Thanks,
Robert
- "The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America"
/ 104-5327902-9960761
- Mercury ion complexes added into your drinking water decreases your I.Q. instantly. : http://crashrecovery.org/Lor2_QTS_700kb_QD.mov
- Computerized T-valves were added in 2004 into the Los Angeles water supply system to remotely facilitate customized additives into the drinking water.
Public Extermination Project
http://la.indymedia.org/news/2004/08/115676.php
by Janet C. Phelan
Roberthttp://www.deliberatedumbingdown.com/
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0966707109
i get about 100 spam emails a day. What strikes me though is that none of these emails contain false or forged messages which concern or contain the domain names amazon.com, amazon.co.uk, amazon.de and google.com or google.nl.
This surely gives customers a better feeling when choosing to shop and purchase through amazon and or google.
Has it all todo with protecting the reputation of ones internet domain name?
Robert
Now that being said, there is a second part of this, and this is really borrowing from the culture of the open source community. There is a very important role in a software company like IBM for top down managed code architecture and all that kind of good stuff. But there's also a tremendous amount of potential innovation that is locked up in the heads of the front line programmers and we try to liberate that creativity and the innovative potential of all of those people. "
Well Mr. Heintzmann gets some homework from me. He first should write a "Hello World!" program in C, C++ or Perl, etc. After successfully completing that task, he should read his article again, and think if he is still the God of OpenSource development.
Robert
An interesting DVD tip : go watch "Pirates of Silicon Valley" on the just released DVD edition : http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0168122/
Robert
What I make out of Apple OSX going to run Intel CPU's as well?
hmm well, IMHO Billy Gates gave Steve Jobs the marching orders for this. Windows on x86 is a lost vehicle, and Billy knows it... in NASCAR racing terms : the Windows racecar is not able to leave the pits. so Apple is ordered to send in the OSX car and take the complete x86 field to its own victory. OSX != OSS
The objective? Wipe any OSS Linux alike OS from the x86 racing track?
Robert
You might wanna have a look at this :
:
"Hall of Tortured Souls"
http://crashrecovery.org/torture/
Robert
Looks like Mr. Kircaali wants his editors back :)
Robert
I dunno who you are, but i myself am sick and tired of people shouting around from underneath a stone, hiding in the anonymous dark wearing a mask.
I don't know the reason why PJ wants to operate in a certain level of anonymity, but i assume that her investigative reporting would be seriously harmed if anyone could see her coming from ten blocks away.
If it would harm PJ by just copying the 1st paragraph of a total weird story by O'Gara then i would of course not do such a thing. But get real, anyone planning to target PJ, wouldn't have seen O'Gara's piece of crap "writing" about PJ? I just pasted that piece, because i sense that it will soon be gone, and then no-one will know or remember why O'Gara was actually pulled from sys-con "publications". And i wanted to display what total utter sewer language was used.
Enough said, I hope PJ has found a safe place to stay with good friends.
Robert
Now that the SCO vs IBM case nears it final resolvement, and the heating wheel is getting tuned up at position 10, strange things seem to happen. So its not really that surprising that types like the Bill O'Reilly's and Ann Coulter's are being put into full powa play : They just start jerking the knees of the persons in question which are of most annoyance. It all reminds me again of that ice skating tragedy where Tonya Harding ordered her opponents knee caps to be jacked out :
:
....
http://clientservernews.com/
"
Who Is Pamela Jones?
By Maureen O'Gara
Only one person in the world has ever claimed to have met her - in the pressroom at LinuxWorld in Boston complete with a Pamela Jones badge - and described her as a fortyish reddish-blonde who giggled a lot.
Oh yeah? Wonder what cold crème she uses. Pamela Jones is a 61-year-old Jehovah's Witness who lives in a shabby genteel garden apartment in desperate need of an interior decorator on a heavily trafficked commercial road at 304 North Central Avenue in Hartsdale, New York. Hartsdale is in Westchester and Westchester is IBM territory.
"
Unbelievable, if anyone happens to knows PJ well, make sure the vicious O'Gara's won't get a chance to knock out PJ's knee caps.
Robert
Reading your email will hurt your I.Q. level? Thats rather weird. Here's my tale on it :
:
:
It not so much the email itself which is harmfull, but more the used email client and its environment, Operating System if you like. I use pine or mutt for reading my email, combined with an intelligent antispam program on my email server.
reading email with pine or mutt is like reading your daily headlines in ascii format. The pine program has some nice features which able you to select certain emails with a few keystrokes. So if you get a lot of emails from a certain maillinglist which start with Subject [linux-cooks] you can select them with
; (SELECT criteria) -> T(ext) -> S(ubject) ->
String in message SUBJECT to match : [linux-cooks]
[Select matched 507 messages!]
Wow thats nice, and now you save them in a folder linux-cooks
A (APPLY command:) -> S(ave) ->
SAVE 507 msgs to folder [saved-messages] : linux-cooks
next it asks if you want to delete these 507 messages... rather handy if you want to clean-up your INBOX of make it smaller quick. certainly is you can select a lot of Trash email using the ; method.
My conclusion is that using such an email client won't harm your I.Q. . On windows one uses Outlook which is a rather obsessive with taking over all key tasks from the person behind the PC. The only thing which is left out , is the viewing and reading itself.
I would describe Outlook as the email client which even holds your willy when taking a leak. Rather abusrd, but also , when taking in mind that the windows desktop with its looks, views, wizards and graphics comes pretty close to a destructive brainwash. A brainwash which is rather effective in switching off the last really functional braincells.
Robert
Everyone knows that this story http://www.vnunet.com/news/1160853 is just pure FUD. So do not feed these trollz.
I have watched the slashdot topics and stories for the last couple of weeks and i am not amused. Slashdot "Administrators" like CowboyNeal , CmdrTaco and others should know better.
Next i see slashdot polls like My money is on: The Eagles, The Patriot or The Insurgents. This just makes my stomach feel sick. Has slashdot slipped into a rats whoore house of opinions which really no-one cares about?
Robert
" Children to get jabs against drug addiction
Ministers consider vaccination scheme. Heroin, cocaine and nicotine targeted
A radical scheme to vaccinate children against future drug addiction is being considered by ministers, The Independent on Sunday can reveal.
Under the plans, doctors would immunise children at risk of becoming smokers or drug users with an injection. The scheme could operate in a similar way to the current nationwide measles, mumps and rubella vaccination programme.
Childhood immunisation would provide adults with protection from the euphoria that is experienced by users, making drugs such as heroin and cocaine pointless to take. Such vaccinations are being developed by pharmaceutical companies and are due to hit the market within two years.
The Department of Trade and Industry has set up a special project to investigate ways of using new scientific breakthroughs to combat drug and nicotine addiction.
A national anti-drug immunisation scheme is one of the proposals being put forward by the Brain Science, Addiction and Drugs project, an expert committee of scientists appointed by the Government earlier this year.
Professor David Nutt, a leading government drugs adviser who sits on the committee, told the IoS that anti-drug vaccines for children are likely to be among the panel's recommendations when it reports next March.
Professor Nutt, head of psychopharmacology at the University of Bristol and a senior member of the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs, said: "People could be vaccinated against drugs at birth as you are against measles. You could say cocaine is more dangerous than measles, for example. It is important that there is a debate on this issue. This is a huge topic - addiction and smoking are major causes of premature death."
According to the Government's own figures, the cost of drug addiction - through related crime and health problems - to the economy is £12bn a year. There is a strong incentive for the Government to find new ways to halt spiralling addiction. Last week, the IoS revealed that cocaine use had trebled in Britain with increasing numbers of users switching to highly addictive crack cocaine.
Scientists are already conducting trials for drugs that can be used by doctors to vaccinate against cocaine, heroin and nicotine addiction.
Xenova, the British biotechnology firm, has carried out trials on an anti-cocaine vaccine which showed that 58 per cent of patients remained cocaine-free after three months.
Meanwhile, experts at the Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, California, have developed a super-virus, harmless to humans, which produces proteins that can block or reduce the effects of cocaine.
The team at Scripps tested the virus on rats by injecting it into their noses twice a day for three days.
On the fourth day, the rats were given a shot of cocaine. The researchers found that cocaine had more effect on the rats not injected with the virus than those that were. Scientists hope that the virus will help stop the cravings experienced by cocaine users for the drug by blocking the pleasure they normally associate with cocaine. This anti-drug medication is expected to be available to users within the next two years in the form of a nasal spray.
Proposals to introduce a national anti-drug vaccination programme have been given a cautious welcome by MPs and experts.
Ian Gibson, head of the Commons Science and Technology Committee, said the Government would have to carry out public consultation. "There is no reason to think this would not be a starter or beneficial," said Dr Gibson, Labour MP for Norwich North. "But ... proper consultation with the public needs to happen well in advance."
David Hinchliffe, chairman of the Commons Health Committee a
On 07 October 2004:
"Nvidia 6800 Ultra as rare as hens' Doc Marten boots"
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=18932
and on 05 December 2004 : still no 6800 Ultra available!! :
"6800 Ultra hardly available in EU $740 for the card that you can't buy"
http://www.theinquirer.net/?article=20055
Robert
If i'm not mistaken, BillG predicted that the cost of hardware can be neglected to that of software in the future. I assume he meant Microsoft software. Again $9.1 billion in sales of AMD/Intel based server hardware is not, what i would call, a neglectable deal! :)
Robert
We can read :
"since the first leap second in 1972, all leap seconds have been positive and there were 22 leap seconds in the 27 years to January, 1999."
Which means after running a clock, according to _our_ standards, for 365 days, we need to manually adjust it and add 1 second. This then looks like _our_ own time standard and its clocks are ticking on a too slow rate. From which i conclude that, compared to Paris time standards, our world and planet earth is "gearing" up in speed. Indeed, i feel as if i'm loosing time every day :)
The conclusion i get from this, is that our natural surroundings are ticking faster, compared to our own standards of time.
Now there's two solutions to this problem :
1. fix our own standards of time, i.e. nature must be correct.
2. our standard of time is correct, we only need to force nature to be on time. This would be absurd however.
Now as to the leap seconds. I run several computers here, and one of them is running as my local ntpd server, which is synced to a GPS time system :
The other computers however only run the ntpdate client every morning at 06:00h. To my surprise i see from the loggings that these computers need between 8 to 10 positive leaps seconds in 24 hours time. Thats quite a difference compared to the 1 positive leap second per Year according the Paris time standards.What i make of this , is that either someone has been fiddling with our .GPS. clocks, or our Paris time standards are a total joke. I tend to believe the first. What does this mean? That instead of loosing 5.9 hours in a galaxy cycle of 26000 years, we actually lost 3.1 years during this galaxy cycle of 26000 years.
"Loosing" here means, positive time manually added to our own Paris clock standard.
Galaxy Cycle :
"The Moon has a cycle around the Earth, the Earth has a cycle around the Sun, the Solar System has a cycle in the Milky Way," Ms Blake says. "That [the galaxy cycle] takes 26,000 years, and this particular calendar is coming to the end of that cycle. "That long cycle ends in 2012 - it's the end of a cycle, the end of a time. A new era is starting for the solar system."
news.bbc.co.uk
Robert