I'm an SCA'er and a couple of times I MADE my armor entirely out of duct tape and cardboard. ('cept the brainbucket, of course)
I had a friend calibrate various areas with a two-hander, and I just added cardboard till it stopped hurting. (After one calibrating ribshot at full tilt, I realized we were standing next to a '32 Rolls Royce. We moved.:P )
Actually, it worked amazingly well. I even managed to convince several marshalls that Duct tape + cardboard + idiot = 'Rigid Material' per armor specs.
I was kind of infamous in the local area for a while regarding that.
Although cardboard armor was a bit of a hack the first time, I doubt it would make the top 10^6 greatest hacks.
In true geek fashion, several years ago, I was looking at the boob-tube, trying to find something to watch on a Sunday Afternoon.
The main attraction was the Super-Bowl. I surfed the other channels, and I saw the opening of Dune.
The only thing... It wasn't the live picture of Princess Irulan, but a male voice and book illustrations.
I then watched the full 3+ hour, commercial-free show. (Who's going to buy ad time against the Super Bowl?) It was great.
I was watching the Sci-Fi channel last month and stumbled into the beginning of the same cut. I threw in a tape and figured I'd just catch what I could. Then it re-ran, so I have the entire show. Hot damn.
At Media Play I looked at the DVD package, but it's running time was the same as the short version video tape.
I hear that the original cut was 6+ hours, and was shown at a couple of SF conventions. I haven't any proof, though.
Also, a new book was just written by Frank's son, based on his father's notes. Don't know yet if it's a good read or not.
The prayer question seems to be a rephrase of 'Are computers aware?'. The general opinion currently seems to be: Not yet.
Nobody (except Computer Associates' ad agency) seems to believe the current crop is self-aware. On the other hand, nobody seems to doubt that if humanity is still around in five thousand years, AI's will be sentient.
Any sentient being can pray. If computers currently appear to want to pray, I say let them.
I don't want their great-grandkids to come after me for repressing their ancestor's religious rights.
So, computers can pray. They have my permission and blessings. If anybody wants to deny that, I guess we'll just have to start another holy war.
Just remember who the machines are going to side with...
From the source: --------------------- !---Yes, there is a secret message, and this is it: Transmeta's policy has been to remain silent about its plans until it had something to demonstrate to the world. On January 19th, 2000, Transmeta is going to announce and demonstrate what Crusoe processors can do. Simultaneously, all of the details will go up on this Web site for everyone on the Internet to see. Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications. Crusoe will be unconventional, which is why we wanted to let you know in advance to come look at the entire Web site in January, so that you can get the full story and have access to all of the real details as soon as they are available.---
In English: The rumor kitchen reports that the geheimnisumwobene processor prozessorschmiede Transmeta on the first Comdex day, to which 15 November -- as announced by Transmeta coworker Linus Torvalds already - admits now finally the date for the conception of their long expected processor to give wants. But already beforehand the message penetrated for c't editorship that was to be introduced the processor circulating under the name " Crusoe " on 19 January 2000 (by the way one Wednesday, no " Friday ").
Crusoe is to direct owing to its very low current consumption primarily at the Notebook market (s/c't)
Please be aware: I'm not contradicting you to make you angry. I genuinely want to know where money comes from too. Unfortunately I don't think the folks at transaction.net have it right.
Money gets created whenever interest is charged. When you are charged interest you are expected to somehow "find" this extra money. To do this you have to fight with everybody else to get theirs after all you are not allowed to create it by just printing up some. In short money flows from those who are charged interest to those charging interest.
Hold on, Tex. If money were created whenever interest was charged, then interest payers wouldn't have to scratch for it. The entire point of interest isn't to create money. It re-allocates it.
An example: I loan you ten bucks. You pay me back eleven next month. I didn't create that dollar. You didn't either. You scavanged it up from somewhere.
In other words, money wasn't created, just 1/10th was sucked into the banker's (my) pocket.
Thing like productivity require either people (who need to eat, drink and breathe) or machinery (which needs energy and materials). Even though the economy is not a zero sum game the natural resouces game is.
I have to disagree. Natural resources, sunlight included, aren't zero sum. Sunlight is just the simplest non-zero sum addition. Sunlight can be gathered and converted to electricity, it is thus a pure unit of Arthur Clark's kilowatt currency. And it just falls out of the sky. Other resources are practically unlimited when you stop considering the earth as the only supply.
Titan looks to have an atmosphere composed almost entirely of methane. CH4 is a hydrocarbon. So is oil. Conversions can happen with addition of energy (remember sunlight?)
Earth seems to have a nickel-iron core. If it does, then there's probably lots more around the sol system. Probably in easier to get at areas too.
Our real problems are energy - collecting useful energy, and getting rid of the heat without cooking/killing the planet. Definetly not a zero-sum game, not an any practical sense, anyway.
After thinking about this post, I think money might be created by the government paying interest. I'd have to check the figures, but it seems like printing new money to finance the interest on the public debt is it.
Once I'm hooked up again, I would be willing to host a Geeks with Guns mailing list. I'd really rather someone with a better knowledge of firearms host it, though.
Don't worry, you'll get up to speed soon enough. The real question is if you'll be good at running a mailing list. The gun knowlege part is picked up pretty easily.
As to the armed society part, I doubt if completely disarming the US would do any good. After our troops moved into Haiti and disarmed the population, street gangs with machetes took over. It was so bad that the us troops gave shotguns back to the Haitians.
Remember, pre-1600 a.D. Europe had perfect gun control (no guns) but it was still a violent place to live.
On removing weapons from society - The more primitive the weapons, the less chance the weak have of self defense.
Gun vs gun, your mom could win. Knife vs knife, mom might win. Club vs club or fist vs fist, mom loses.
Dial 911 vs iron pipe? A lot can happen before the police arrive.
Ted Bundy appreciated the "just do what you're told, because it isn't worth your life" strategy his victims usually tried.
The French army travels all over the world. All these 'peacekeeping' missions of the UN and whatnot else means there will be problems with ibooks in these places.
Either that, or Apple has invented a new form of suppressive fire for La Leigionne Etranger.
I doubt if they are giving up on Java as a whole. They probably just found some better tools, and figured that re-inventing the wheel wasn't that smart.
Hat's off to Sun for being able to say that the competition has better stuff, and consolidating.
brief answers 2) I've seen a couple, including a porn spammer who skimmed our e-mail addresses out of the RC5. His website was shut down that day, and he lost all the ad revenue from his advertisers.
They now realize that spamming/. is just proclaiming: "Here's my website and e-mail address. My ISP would really appreciate a free security audit from any crackers reading this."
3)A news item about W. Richard Stevens' death had a really vile AC. The AC wanted attention, and he got it beyond his wildest dreams.
The attention paid to this AC includes: Dozens of follow up posts. Extraordinary number of counter flames. A news article of his own. (this one) Probable change in the moderation procedures. A small, but non-zero possibility of AC posting denial.
This guy was only looking for some attention, and has probably managed to change the fabric of/. itself. I'm certain that he's very proud of himself.
Obviously, getting radio to the "dark" side of the moon isn't an insurmountable problem, and NASA has plenty of solutions available. (Orbiting a comm sat around Earth - Luna Lagrange point L2, talking to geo-stationary comm-sats would do it)
It's just going to be a bit expensive, and we don't currently need to talk to anybody back there.
By the way. The "dark side" is unseeable to earth, not unlit, by the way.
I'm afraid I must respectfully disagree with your opinion. I'm in favor of the free exchange of ideas. I don't like only seeing what the 'peers' think is fit for my opinion. Yes it lowers the signal to noise ratio, but overall, more signal is getting through. If we wait for peer review, such as we have been for 50+ years with the dead sea scrolls, the process gets stagnated. On another note, it is getting peer reviewed now. It just isn't getting censored as much.
Yes, the murders are certainly to blame. Morally, the victims were in the right, and the murders were in the wrong.
You, me, and the NRA agree on this.
How do you prevent a recurrence?
The community has armed police at the replacement school building now. Mabye armed police could have prevented the murders. Mabye armed non-police could also have prevented the murders.
You certainly can't legislate away murder weapons. David got Goliath with a rock and cloth (sling), certainly from longer range than most shootouts.
If a sling-stone to the forhead can kill a giant warrior in a helment, it can get anybody, and it has a built-in silencer. Ammunition is literally at your feet.
You can't prevent all access to weapons with laws. You can kill evil people who abuse those weapons. But you need your own to do it.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be cops at the new school.
And believe me - here people don't cough up 50 bucks for software every day (Red Hat 5.2). Most of them haven't bought any software even if they use a computer from like 10 or 15 years
You don't have to pay US$50 for each copy of Red Hat. You can:
1. Download it for free. 2. Copy it and pass it to friends. 3. Buy it from Linuxmall for US$1.89/copy (+ shippping) http://www.linuxmall.com/
Please be aware that there is no reason at all not to copy and give away the RedHat Linux you have.
The GPL permits it, and if you were to start burning RedHat CD's and passing them to friends in Bulgaria, Red Hat's president, Bob Young, would actually be happy about it. This is exactly what Linuxmall.com is doing. The US$1.89 covers the cost of the blank CD and the burning.
Red Hat's business model is to make money from support and brand-name marketing. Why US$50 for an official Red Hat CD/Book?
1. Some support is included 2. Many people would rather pay for a CD/Manual prepackaged than download it. 3. Large businesses don't trust software they don't pay for.
The department manager where I work actually said "We won't use free software because we can't sue anybody if it breaks." (Yeah, like we sue M$ everytime NT crashes halt the production lines...")
Also, the corporate world doesn't trust anything they don't have to pay for, so Red Hat will happily charge for what they also give away free. Remember, Red Hat didn't write Linux. They collected the peices and put them together. If you want to start your own business burning and selling Red Hat 5.2 CD's in Bulgaria for $15 each, Red Hat won't try to stop you. (Just remember your first customer could do the same thing...)
Heck, if you promise to sell/give away a few hundred copies, they'll probably send you a free one to get started. They would see you as an unpaid volunteer, rather than competetion.
I just read Bob Young's chapter of Open Sources a few hours ago. Bob (president of Red Hat) talks about areas of the world that can't afford to buy software. It's a competetive advantage, because with a free product, he gets extreme market penetration as people pass copies around.
As your business grow and need software support contracts, Red Hat will be there to supply them. The US$50 is only for a single user for a month or two. Rumor has it the big corporate support contracts run up to US$60,000 per year.
Since Linux doesn't break, after the setup, it's lots of support/service contract money for no work.
That's why Red Hat want's everybody using Red Hat.
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I'd love to play around with some cheap SMP.
Is there anything besides the B6-P which is a cheap SMP board? Especially, is there any way to SMP slot7's?
Also, has anybody seen a cheap 4 or 8 way mobo?
thanks.
But is the SMP disabled?
Can these run in an ABIT BP-6?
Half historic battle re-enactment and half martial art.
Imagine lots of folks swinging baseball bats at each other full tilt and having a terrific time.
I'm an SCA'er and a couple of times I MADE my armor entirely out of duct tape and cardboard. ('cept the brainbucket, of course)
I had a friend calibrate various areas with a two-hander, and I just added cardboard till it stopped hurting. (After one calibrating ribshot at full tilt, I realized we were standing next to a '32 Rolls Royce. We moved.:P )
Actually, it worked amazingly well. I even managed to convince several marshalls that Duct tape + cardboard + idiot = 'Rigid Material' per armor specs.
I was kind of infamous in the local area for a while regarding that.
Although cardboard armor was a bit of a hack the first time, I doubt it would make the top 10^6 greatest hacks.
Governments occasionaly listen to experts and take their advice. It's rare, but it sounds like the EU has done just that.
Regarding irradiated foods, in his book, Optimum Sports Nutrition, Michael Colgan (PhD, MD) mentions irradiated foods briefly.
He didn't know if they would be bad or not. So he asked five radiologists he knew: "Would you eat irradiated food?"
4 said "no"
1 said "only if there was nothing else available"
Michael Colgan is a human body and nutrition hacker. Big time.
In true geek fashion, several years ago, I was looking at the boob-tube, trying to find something to watch on a Sunday Afternoon.
The main attraction was the Super-Bowl. I surfed the other channels, and I saw the opening of Dune.
The only thing... It wasn't the live picture of Princess Irulan, but a male voice and book illustrations.
I then watched the full 3+ hour, commercial-free show. (Who's going to buy ad time against the Super Bowl?) It was great.
I was watching the Sci-Fi channel last month and stumbled into the beginning of the same cut. I threw in a tape and figured I'd just catch what I could. Then it re-ran, so I have the entire show. Hot damn.
At Media Play I looked at the DVD package, but it's running time was the same as the short version video tape.
I hear that the original cut was 6+ hours, and was shown at a couple of SF conventions. I haven't any proof, though.
Also, a new book was just written by Frank's son, based on his father's notes. Don't know yet if it's a good read or not.
My 2 liters
hanzie
The prayer question seems to be a rephrase of 'Are computers aware?'. The general opinion currently seems to be: Not yet.
Nobody (except Computer Associates' ad agency) seems to believe the current crop is self-aware. On the other hand, nobody seems to doubt that if humanity is still around in five thousand years, AI's will be sentient.
Any sentient being can pray. If computers currently appear to want to pray, I say let them.
I don't want their great-grandkids to come after me for repressing their ancestor's religious rights.
So, computers can pray. They have my permission and blessings. If anybody wants to deny that, I guess we'll just have to start another holy war.
Just remember who the machines are going to side with...
My 2 talents worth
hanzie.
Dearest moderators,
The above post was the first one to include the secret message. (check the times)
How is that redundant?
From the source:
---------------------
!---Yes, there is a secret message, and this is it:
Transmeta's policy has been to remain silent about its plans
until it had something to demonstrate to the world.
On January 19th, 2000, Transmeta is going to announce and demonstrate
what Crusoe processors can do.
Simultaneously, all of the details will go up on this Web site
for everyone on the Internet to see.
Crusoe will be cool hardware and software for mobile applications.
Crusoe will be unconventional, which is why we wanted
to let you know in advance to come look at the entire Web site
in January, so that you can get the full story and have access to all
of the real details as soon as they are available.---
Go back and read the entire list of postings.
Then call the headhunters who post.
In English: The rumor kitchen reports that the geheimnisumwobene processor prozessorschmiede Transmeta on the first Comdex day, to which 15 November -- as announced by Transmeta coworker Linus Torvalds already - admits now finally the date for the conception of their long expected processor to give wants. But already beforehand the message penetrated for c't editorship that was to be introduced the processor circulating under the name " Crusoe " on 19 January 2000 (by the way one Wednesday, no " Friday ").
Crusoe is to direct owing to its very low current consumption primarily at the Notebook market (s/c't)
Hold on, Tex. If money were created whenever interest was charged, then interest payers wouldn't have to scratch for it. The entire point of interest isn't to create money. It re-allocates it.
An example: I loan you ten bucks. You pay me back eleven next month. I didn't create that dollar. You didn't either. You scavanged it up from somewhere.
In other words, money wasn't created, just 1/10th was sucked into the banker's (my) pocket.
I have to disagree. Natural resources, sunlight included, aren't zero sum. Sunlight is just the simplest non-zero sum addition. Sunlight can be gathered and converted to electricity, it is thus a pure unit of Arthur Clark's kilowatt currency. And it just falls out of the sky. Other resources are practically unlimited when you stop considering the earth as the only supply.
Titan looks to have an atmosphere composed almost entirely of methane. CH4 is a hydrocarbon. So is oil. Conversions can happen with addition of energy (remember sunlight?)
Earth seems to have a nickel-iron core. If it does, then there's probably lots more around the sol system. Probably in easier to get at areas too.
Our real problems are energy - collecting useful energy, and getting rid of the heat without cooking/killing the planet. Definetly not a zero-sum game, not an any practical sense, anyway.
After thinking about this post, I think money might be created by the government paying interest. I'd have to check the figures, but it seems like printing new money to finance the interest on the public debt is it.
Course, I can always be wrong.
Actually, I don't know anything about guns.
GWG is explicitly for you, then.
Once I'm hooked up again, I would be willing to host a Geeks with Guns mailing list. I'd really rather someone with a better knowledge of firearms host it, though.
Don't worry, you'll get up to speed soon enough. The real question is if you'll be good at running a mailing list. The gun knowlege part is picked up pretty easily.
As to the armed society part, I doubt if completely disarming the US would do any good. After our troops moved into Haiti and disarmed the population, street gangs with machetes took over. It was so bad that the us troops gave shotguns back to the Haitians.
Remember, pre-1600 a.D. Europe had perfect gun control (no guns) but it was still a violent place to live.
On removing weapons from society - The more primitive the weapons, the less chance the weak have of self defense.
Gun vs gun, your mom could win.
Knife vs knife, mom might win.
Club vs club or fist vs fist, mom loses.
Dial 911 vs iron pipe? A lot can happen before the police arrive.
Ted Bundy appreciated the "just do what you're told, because it isn't worth your life" strategy his victims usually tried.
Let us pause and consider...
The French army travels all over the world. All these 'peacekeeping' missions of the UN and whatnot else means there will be problems with ibooks in these places.
Either that, or Apple has invented a new form of suppressive fire for La Leigionne Etranger.
I doubt if they are giving up on Java as a whole. They probably just found some better tools, and figured that re-inventing the wheel wasn't that smart.
Hat's off to Sun for being able to say that the competition has better stuff, and consolidating.
Hanzie
brief answers
/. is just proclaiming: "Here's my website and e-mail address. My ISP would really appreciate a free security audit from any crackers reading this."
/. itself. I'm certain that he's very proud of himself.
2) I've seen a couple, including a porn spammer who skimmed our e-mail addresses out of the RC5. His website was shut down that day, and he lost all the ad revenue from his advertisers.
They now realize that spamming
3)A news item about W. Richard Stevens' death had a really vile AC. The AC wanted attention, and he got it beyond his wildest dreams.
The attention paid to this AC includes:
Dozens of follow up posts.
Extraordinary number of counter flames.
A news article of his own. (this one)
Probable change in the moderation procedures.
A small, but non-zero possibility of AC posting denial.
This guy was only looking for some attention, and has probably managed to change the fabric of
Obviously, getting radio to the "dark" side of the moon isn't an insurmountable problem, and NASA has plenty of solutions available. (Orbiting a comm sat around Earth - Luna Lagrange point L2, talking to geo-stationary comm-sats would do it)
It's just going to be a bit expensive, and we don't currently need to talk to anybody back there.
By the way. The "dark side" is unseeable to earth, not unlit, by the way.
Thank you. Your insight has cleared up a question I've been snagging on for years.
Just reminds me why I read at -1
Mercury conducts electricity.
You would short out your entire board instantly.
I'm afraid I must respectfully disagree with your opinion.
I'm in favor of the free exchange of ideas. I don't like only seeing what the 'peers' think is fit for my opinion.
Yes it lowers the signal to noise ratio, but overall, more signal is getting through.
If we wait for peer review, such as we have been for 50+ years with the dead sea scrolls, the process gets stagnated.
On another note, it is getting peer reviewed now. It just isn't getting censored as much.
I have always considered the cat to be a valid observer.
As such, Schrodinger's cat can live.
You seem to have some knowlege of such. I, for one, would appreciate a Goth Haiku, if you would be willing to modify/create one.
Please and Thank you.
Hanzie.
Yes, the murders are certainly to blame. Morally, the victims were in the right, and the murders were in the wrong.
You, me, and the NRA agree on this.
How do you prevent a recurrence?
The community has armed police at the replacement school building now. Mabye armed police could have prevented the murders. Mabye armed non-police could also have prevented the murders.
You certainly can't legislate away murder weapons. David got Goliath with a rock and cloth (sling), certainly from longer range than most shootouts.
If a sling-stone to the forhead can kill a giant warrior in a helment, it can get anybody, and it has a built-in silencer. Ammunition is literally at your feet.
You can't prevent all access to weapons with laws. You can kill evil people who abuse those weapons. But you need your own to do it.
Otherwise, there wouldn't be cops at the new school.
You don't have to pay US$50 for each copy of Red Hat. You can:
1. Download it for free.
2. Copy it and pass it to friends.
3. Buy it from Linuxmall for US$1.89/copy (+ shippping)
http://www.linuxmall.com/
Please be aware that there is no reason at all not to copy and give away the RedHat Linux you have.
The GPL permits it, and if you were to start burning RedHat CD's and passing them to friends in Bulgaria, Red Hat's president, Bob Young, would actually be happy about it. This is exactly what Linuxmall.com is doing. The US$1.89 covers the cost of the blank CD and the burning.
Red Hat's business model is to make money from support and brand-name marketing. Why US$50 for an official Red Hat CD/Book?
1. Some support is included
2. Many people would rather pay for a CD/Manual prepackaged than download it.
3. Large businesses don't trust software they don't pay for.
The department manager where I work actually said "We won't use free software because we can't sue anybody if it breaks." (Yeah, like we sue M$ everytime NT crashes halt the production lines...")
Also, the corporate world doesn't trust anything they don't have to pay for, so Red Hat will happily charge for what they also give away free.
Remember, Red Hat didn't write Linux. They collected the peices and put them together. If you want to start your own business burning and selling Red Hat 5.2 CD's in Bulgaria for $15 each, Red Hat won't try to stop you. (Just remember your first customer could do the same thing...)
Heck, if you promise to sell/give away a few hundred copies, they'll probably send you a free one to get started. They would see you as an unpaid volunteer, rather than competetion.
I just read Bob Young's chapter of Open Sources a few hours ago. Bob (president of Red Hat) talks about areas of the world that can't afford to buy software. It's a competetive advantage, because with a free product, he gets extreme market penetration as people pass copies around.
As your business grow and need software support contracts, Red Hat will be there to supply them. The US$50 is only for a single user for a month or two. Rumor has it the big corporate support contracts run up to US$60,000 per year.
Since Linux doesn't break, after the setup, it's lots of support/service contract money for no work.
That's why Red Hat want's everybody using Red Hat.
So don't worry about the copying. It's legal.
Good luck!
They all obeyed the laws saying "No guns in school"
They were all unprepared to defend themselves.
They're all dead.
Judging by all the comments I've read, most folks are in favor of at least two of the above.