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  1. Trace the etymology for "monster" - mon-ster on Is The U.S. Becoming Anti-Science? · · Score: 0
    As confirmed by DICTIONARY.COM, "mon" is earliest form of old English that today is pronounced and written progressively as "man." To wit, those jamaican accents are more authentic English than I would have admit had I not known. By the way, Scotland has preserved its English dialect greater than England because Rome was unable to invade Scotland and mingle and impress as it did to England inhabitants.

    mon
    n. Scots

    Man.


    Thereby, one can trace "mon" to a related application as in "common"


    com- or col- or con-
    pref.
    Together; with; joint; jointly

    Latin municiplis, from municipium, town, from municeps, citizen : munus

    Middle English comunen, to have common dealings with, converse, from Old French communer, to make common, share (from commun, common. See common), and perhaps from Old French communier, to share in the Communion (from Late Latin communicare, from Latin, to communicate. See communicate).

    common -

    French, independent municipality, from Old French comugne, from Medieval Latin commnia, community, from neuter of Latin commnis, common. See mei-1 in Indo-European Roots.


    I've this reprinted 1820's American Heritage Dictionary, and to the history it is said that Noah Webster consulted with his findings to trace English to over twenty-one or twenty-two languages or dialects, even to sanskrit. Even so, a "human" as defined in this old dictionary is called upon as a sea monster! It is as though the word "monster" is being taught derogattory to its original application. Yet to this day, I can see that in political conversation there are people that don't claim "man rights", but they claim "human rights" or human this and human that as thought the words are inter-changable when clearly they are naught.
  2. Yes, patent is mine on Microsoft's Vigilante Investigation of Zombies · · Score: 0
    Greetings and blessings!

    We adhese to our words and thoughts they present, respectively. I had a rather lengthy post on common law patents, modded as offtopic, yet I can't seem to look beyond the twenty-four post record limit without donating to Slashdot beyond the occasion. When thinking of letters patent, ponder on self-evident drawing rights by pen to paper, before the abomination Drawing Rights seized by that President RICHARD NIXON of the UNITED STATES. So, briefly I exhibit at DICTIONARY.COM;

    pat-ent

    pat
    v. patted, patting, pats
    v. tr.
    1.
    1. To tap gently with the open hand or with something flat.
    2. To stroke lightly as a gesture of affection.
    2. To mold by tapping gently with the hands or a flat implement.


    v. intr.
    1. To run or walk with a tapping sound.
    2. To hit something or against something gently or lightly.

    n.
    1. A light gentle stroke or tap.
    2. The sound made by a light stroke or tap or by light footsteps.
    3. A small mass shaped by or as if by patting: a pat of butter.
    -ent
    suff.
    1.
    1. Performing, promoting, or causing a specified action: absorbent.
    2. Being in a specified state or condition: bivalent.
    2. One that performs, promotes, or causes a specified action: referent.
    Setting a common law patent is easy as placing the claimant postal address face of the each page of a letter, or serial enumeration, to be publicly known as patent; thereby a postal stamp set on the address of the claimant as having paid the postal fee, and thereafter sent to a recipient such for audience, witness, or return to sender (commercial patents are two-way as opposed to non-commercial patents) to preserve a record of a patent; do not conceal the letter patent with an envelope; it needs to be publicly visible; that is why the "To" and "From" needs to be on the face of the actual letter, down the middle and not in the upper-left corner as though a commercial service: This all so the postal service can be witness for an original estate. This precedes all patent offices, even that corporation known as UNITED STATES PATENT AND TRADEMARK OFFICE. How do you suppose you reserve your rights before you surrender the rights to someone else so they can Reserve your Rights on your behalf (office)? Isn't that like burning the unanimouse Declaration of Independence so King George couldn't get his greedy hands on that document? In other words, just send a frickin' postcard and it'll be greater evidence that you own your ideas than anyone else. If someone asks you where you got your idea, say to them that a beutiful angel, scantily clad in a everclear lake, reached into her bussom and handed you a Sword (of truth) whence to carry into battle for the King's court; then if they ignore that their idea looks as your idea, and insist that your idea is derived of theirs, you can begin blowing your nose at them and follow the advice of our blessed postal patron Benjamin Franklin to fart proudly in their general direction. :-) Happy to help.
  3. Sourdough... on Microsoft's Vigilante Investigation of Zombies · · Score: 0

    Maybe it was a Foodian slip? You know how Ballmer is gaining some girth on the outer crust; maybe he was thinking of the Pillsbury doughboy? I feel like eating some sourdough myself... This is that CIA subliminal mind-control being used to by the corporate bakeries... mmmm sourdough.

  4. Double standard. on Microsoft's Vigilante Investigation of Zombies · · Score: 1, Informative

    There is no redress for grievances to or for corporations; remedy is legislated, and it is known that the remedy even recently has degraded to CAN SPAM ACT. Before CAN SPAM ACT, all that was necessary is to acknowledge the source of the transmission and send the owner a bill for purchasing the value-added resale of available communication services. It isn't so easy for a man (either male or female); to enumerate the tresspass of another in terms of billing to the use of a communications line for said data transfer, as an intended interference to a station, and further as deceptive commercial delivery of speach; the remedy would be limited to only those people acting on behalf or employed by the corporation and not the corporation. Reason being is the truth that flesh and blood, living people, can only challenge same; whereas any redress to a corporation would presume the complaint to be of a fellow corporation. Law of Nations clears up the difference between politic and corporate, and I hope everyone gets their copy certified from Project Gutenberg so they know that their are two nations, one America and the other the United States, there are American states and there are United States states, then there are the corporations chartered by their respective states. A challenge to a corporation could be transgressed by Return Service to a misnomer, or a presumption that the complaint is derived of a person in a contract with collateral to the services rendered, et al; no different than a libel of review. Abatement would clear this up, but a UNITED STATES judge or magistrate would need some coaxing as to why we believe people are more special than some fool stealing your resources for use by a UNITED STATES regulated corporation.

    On a somewhat off-topic note, concerning commercial speach transmitted over FCC regulated communications lines, copper or wireless, a friend and I were discussing the circular reasoning involved with the FEDERAL COMMUNICATIONS COMMISSION for licensing; regarding their license demands that no codified transmission may emit from a FCC-licensed station, yet the study course is more FCC codes (regulations) as opposed to actual electrical theory and law. In other words, a demand to subscribe to a FCC license would itself prohibit use under the FCC license. Could this be a loophole regarding the first amendment, if enough pressure is exerted for the people to make unhindered use of services contracted, to prevent a contract stipulation to coerce agreement by reference or partial inclusion of an unrevealed contract (think FCC)? At the verry least, I know that Part 15 of the FCC code is honest about my use of a cable-cutter on copper wire. :-)

    Just trying to stimulate.

  5. Objection, acknowledgement, & counter of Wind on 20 Years of NES · · Score: 0

    Greetings!

    I agree with your post, until you speak of Wind Tree Games. Their software is somewhat as entertaining as a lame lamb, yet it has purpose. I've known missionaries in China that are thrown in prison and tortured for owning, carrying, or sharing any matter of the Bible. The same has been done in Israel, as the United Nations created the State of Israel and it does not allow Christian missionaries to bring the Bible and preach the gospels. Thus, in such a way as to minimize a seizure derived of hatred, it is a blessing to bring the Bible encoded onto a GameBoy cartridge. At best, despite the Wind Tree Games software being somewhat of certain entertainment value, it is an option for those of us that are on that Front that no NEWS CORPORATION dare exhibit. This all to say; love is the law; thou shalt not kill, thou shalt not steal, thou shalt not covet...

    (because everyone should know China and Israel hate the gospels, while Jesus Christ is acknowledged and respected in the Arab countries (that BUSH administraitors are trying to steal from).)
    Related URL: KJV AV 1611 Holy Bible on a GameBoy cartridge

  6. There is no abuse. on Google Plans to Offer Free WiFi in San Francisco · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    They day when one is incriminated for utilizing a tool for its use, a transmit or receive; the terrorists have won. It's all relative naration from people participating in solective morality to compel alienation on people, tax the derived aliens, limit liability, form monopolies, and claim custodianship on IP to imply all prior-existing IP resembling those in custody art piracy.

    Need I say more?

    Common law patents; write a letter, address on the self-same letter to an witness that may hold it as clerk, affix stamp on face of letterhead next to party that payed postage (sender, not return service address), let post-office seal be known on the face of the letter; do not conceal by envelope, do not affix postage on envelope, do not use an envelope; let the letter be sent as would a post-card

    done; common law patent, without USPTO; witness to an idea, thought, design, implementation; art prior-existing, independent, or unrelated to a claim performed on behalf of USPTO; and better, it is public domain because it was not concealed, and use considered by endorsement style or lack thereof.

    GNU GPL, when studied on the verry unconcious concept of IP, is not good; what is needed is a restrictive non-licentious endorsement for IP, and that has existed and is somewhat ignored since USPTO is performing those functions on behalf (office) of the claimant. There is more patent law in the Postal Laws and Regulations then there is in USPTO. Consider the truth;

    pat
    v. patted, patting, pats
    v. tr.

          1.
                      1. To tap gently with the open hand or with something flat.
                      2. To stroke lightly as a gesture of affection.
          2. To mold by tapping gently with the hands or a flat implement.


    v. intr.

          1. To run or walk with a tapping sound. [note from NRAdude: Psalm 92:3]
          2. To hit something or against something gently or lightly. [note from NRAdude: de jure; of the light]

    n.

          1. A light gentle stroke or tap.
          2. The sound made by a light stroke or tap or by light footsteps. [note from NRAdude: Special Drawing Rights, a lien on State Birth Certificates and Statements, were begun by then President Richard Milhouse Nixon]
          3. A small mass shaped by or as if by patting: a pat of butter.

    ento- or ent-
    pref.

            Inside; within: entoblast.

    -ent
    suff.

          1.
                      1. Performing, promoting, or causing a specified action: absorbent.
                      2. Being in a specified state or condition: bivalent.
          2. One that performs, promotes, or causes a specified action: referent.


    From the etymology, it appears pet is a recent synonym to pat. Looking upon the years beginning 1920, if I remember correctly, the uncovered sexual trend among "flappers" was to pet eachother. This is attributed of when people began touching eachother with lust. This is now applied to any stroke of the hand, even to animals held for companionship and sold at organized meat-lockers; a "Pet Store", et al.

    Patents are natural, and here to stay; just find the root, and when a branch is found to consume the entire tree it must be grafted into the trashcan. (my thoughts exactly) The GNU GPL is a short-term no-fix to a difficulty often eschewed by an licentious attorney or administra[i]tor.
  7. Abatement to holder of "aussie_a" on Space Elevator Gets FAA Clearance · · Score: -1, Offtopic
    You reference to the Lord as a Son of a bitch is misplaced anger, I admonish;

    1 John [2:4];
    "[4]He that saith, I know him, and keepeth not his commandments, is a liar, and the truth is not in him."

    1 Thessalonians [5:21];
    "[21]Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."

    Proverbs [16:6];
    "[6]By mercy and truth iniquity is purged: and by the fear of the LORD men depart from evil."

    Psalm [33:4];
    "[4]For the word of the LORD is right; and all his works are done in truth."

    Psalm [25:10];
    "[10]All the paths of the LORD are mercy and truth unto such as keep his covenant and his testimonies."


    Obviously, if it isn't truth then maybe a SON OF A BITCH is trying to slander the Lord. You don't see the Lord benchmarking GNU/Linux on flawed hardware against Microsoft Windows on unflawed hardware, do you? The dispute you see is ommitted from the text, as to build a parable that only meek people may derive perfect understanding. Now considered, think in same light of this "tower" built by people that are united in one lanuage that as caused the unwarranted loss of liberty to the common people that are defaulted to no favorable standing in its Light. Look on the rear of a ONE DOLLAR FEDERAL RESERVE NOTE, as it is colorably endorsed with THE GREAT SEAL OF THE UNITED STATES; there is a pictured pyramid, and what you don't know is that there was a simple man standing there that only knows how to speak one language and each one of those bricks is a "code" from whence he doesn't have a law patent to use to defend himself, and all those stones were cast upon him.

    Applicability to a current event would be towards a prison (all of them are military nature) that we all know about: To my comprehension, none are building pyramids now for the cause it's design has no known purpose; why do rumors come about and say wicked people make efficient use of space and good people erect vast architecture for idle usage? I hear that Big Gray Hotel with bars on the windows, at Guantanamo Bay near Cuba, held in Admiralty jursidiction courts-martial; is proceeding by libel of Review whereas the cargo is seized, seal is broken, bill of laiding mutilated, contents of the cargo is sent to a holding cell from whence the substance is molested of intelligence to a claim of its owner, any radiance of the plunder is consumed near its half-life or is discharged of all its value unless a security agreement is mustered or a claim presented FROM THE ORIGIN where the controversey occured. That is piracy that originated on soil, on the high seas of sand!

    Every country established and remeniscent of English common law, includes Iraq, is recognized of the three venues an Admiralty jurisdiction despite having no physical access to a body of water or sea port. All seizures on land are admiralty. There is Colorado example 1, and example 2

    Hosea [4:6];
    "My people are destroyed for lack of knowledge..."
  8. 720x480 internal, integrated LCD is 320x240 on The Portable Linux Based GP2X is Here · · Score: 0

    Please emphasize accuracy on the specs, for which even I doubt the advertisements and comparisons because they are in a table and not the customary endorsed declaratory sentencing.

    From the information that appeared before me;
    One ARM920T is for processing code, no different than GP32. The main difference is GP32 also performed video calculations on the ARM920T. The GPX2 has a separate ARM940T for the video calculations for 720x480 resolution imagery displayed on the integrated 320x240 resolution LCD screen. GPX2, unlike GP32, contains an (certified?) AC97 audio integration, no less a generation of USB IO exposed from the chassis; this handheld is a hoisted standard media Tool! Wherewith the exceptionally higher video resolution can be exposed to an external monitor to benefit from the original image resolution calculations of 720x480. Despite lacking in wireless features, it has USB; so this can be looked at by developers as not being stuck in any particular advertised network subsystem of the month, and wherefore this unloads the power drain (measured in joules) for more modular pursuits in USB. The one specification comparison with GPX2 that appears silent is GP32 had hardware-accelerated openGL-ES support wilst no equivalent specification is made known for comparison of the product it is advertised to succeed.

    GPX2 has more ability than limiting to Quake. I ran Quake under MS-DOS 6.22, on a 486 DX/4 100MHz CPU with 16MB available RAM, at 400x300 resolution, with IPX networking stack and two active connections (include local), Sound Blaster Pro-emulated hardware, and a mouse, at no less than 14 frames per second: VERRY PLAYABLE. Even Doom3 debuted to challenge XBox at such framerate, and the available hardware in GPX2 is capable of more and with a parasol umbrella.

    Much better than Play Station Portable and GameBoy Advance. I just want more speculation on PDA-sized Commodore 64, PDP 10, vaxen in general; I wanted a 386 PDA (Blackberry cellphones are a 386 PDA)!

  9. You confused authentication (tresspass) with Crime on Hilton Hacker Gets 11 Months · · Score: 0
    There is good and bad tresspass; the best way to explain the fullness of our intentions in authentication is to reprove the etymology;

    tress-pass

        -tress is synonym to a locke of hair, cord, rope. Consider the value of people to form compacts under one surname; an accord, harmony, agree, settle; sundry eschewing uncertainty, or insecurites.


    I can also quote a matter of scripture;
      1 Thessalonians 5:21
    "Prove all things; hold fast that which is good."

    Hear what I'm trying to say? You can hold fast to a cord, but with information you can't be certain that you are holding the original, because it is all an ECHO CHAMBER from where the original authentication is derived; now estimating one's accord based on measurements as cyphers or code; the higher the encryption, the more accurate and approximate, but never exact.

    Apply these as radio propogation, often confused with that foreign Federal Communication Commision, Inc in Washington District of Columbia. Computer software performs by authenticity; it isn't criminal for a program instrumentalised by another's administrative actions. It is a matter of piracy, duplicate title, perhaps unverified right. Therefore I transmit brevity, Copy That; not copy that, not CoPy ThAt, not COPY THAT, but Copy That. Crime is legislated, whereas the original accusation of tresspass has been ignored (ignorance caused misprison), but could also be challenged as plagiarism of a title or piracy; but instead most people prejudie the matter with setoff of a second courtship (violating constitution) by separating into a criminal jurisdiction. Thereby, it is criminal to accuse someone outside a jurisdiction from whence the offence occurred. The common law does not separate into a civil or criminal jurisdiction; the hearing always has both qualities.

    Going back to my thougts on passwords; think of a key as claim to somthing, or a title such as a MCSE statement, or the USC Title IV measurements for the United States flag. If it doesn't match, then it doesn't authenticate; however if it does authenticate, then it can be looked upon as none other than authentic. It is either piracy or original. There never has been a need for the DMCA or RIAA, when existing law has allowed to try accusations of piracy. IDENTITY theft is the same way; there is no preventing intentional theft but to be steadfast and ready in prosecution.

    In my day to day activities as a postmaster at the nearest general post, I use a verry reliable form of authentication that isn't a measurement of artificial computing (think silicon); derived from an agreement is an Letter of Appointment to perform a duty or action on behalf of another at a general post-office, then whomever is performing such Will physically rent (tear) two tokens from Receipt of that duty, such as the verry dimensions of the paper are complimentary down to the fiber. No things can tear the exact same way twice, but the same can't be said about a MCSE working on a firewall (burn MCSE, burn).

    But we're talking authentication; so to create a heuristical code of some sort into a computer cypher, derived from the above treatise on rented paper, would meet the same fate as the original dispute; accuracy is limited by encryption strength (finite). The same fate is of long-hand-writing pads attached to computers; there is resolution as to the field dimensions from whence the pen is thrust onto the pad, but isn't accurate. I know UPS and its digital SIGNature pad are as accurate as bird-shit on pavement. When it leaves your hand, it is not in your posession, but the judgment of the servant your appointed; clerk.
  10. Done. See Hitachi SuperH, or Sega Dreamcast dev on Performance of 64-bit vs. 32-bit Windows Dual Core · · Score: 0

    The Hitachi SuperH processor is 128bit. It's popularly known implementation was in the Sega Dreamcast entertainmant console. Linux has already been ported to it, and it is a verry good system for people to experiment in the realm beyond 64bit computing.

    Here are the more popular Dreamcast with GNU/Linux URLs that I have known...

    http://www.fivemouse.com/dclinux.html
    http://linuxdc.sourceforge.net/
    http://www.m17n.org/linux-sh/dreamcast/

  11. That is a lie, PayPal is not for auction payments. on eBay To Buy Skype For $2.6 Billion · · Score: 0

    PayPal didn't begin for the purpose of auction payments, and if it ever was then that is an advertised lie. I remember the day PayPal eMail arrived in my Inbox: "So-and-so has sent $2xx.xx to your PayPal account. Please click 'here' to verify." The first words uttered from my mouth were verbs, as I did not sign-up for a PayPal account. I complained to the fool that "sent" the BS PayPal Payment(TM) and he said it wouldn't let him retract. So, under the threat of jail for "stealing" someone's money in a non-active PayPal account attached to my eMail account, I had no choice but send the package of expensive property. Immediatly, I went to the PayPal website and it asked some questions related in "securing claim to the funds", but no matter what I did it wouldn't agree that I am making a claim; it wouldn't send a note to prove the mailing address, and because I don't use corporate Banking accounts it wouldn't let me send the funds properly to someone else in fair exchange for needed property. And that was at a time when I was scrimping for funds. It was "advertised" as a way to Quickly(TM) move funds, when in fact it was neither quick and neither did it move funds in the conventional sense. In reality, PayPal is an unjust corporate that pools all its members funds into an interest-bearing Wells Fargo corporate Banking account, and nowhere in PayPal coerced and implied contractual agreements does it recognise anyone's claim to funds stolen into the PayPal corporation. It's all a lie, and I've been one of the most critical of PayPal ever since the appearance of its agents. There are friends I know that have incurred organized theft of much more at that hands of agents of PayPal.

    PayPal, neither eBay, have made an acceptable improvement in their disrespectful venues. Most people use the money arrived in the mail from buyers verily to apply to shipping cost at the Post; this is a speady action that can only be performed when money is in hand immediatly. With an typical outfit as PayPal you can't just go anywhere and say to bill PayPal. UNITED STATES POSTAL SERVICE prints custom lables of PayPal on their corporate website, but it is only a distraction from the root purpose of postal mail -- corporates trie to replace customary general post and general delivery with insufficient address and vane caligraphy when all that is needed is the package to be sent and the satisfaction and discharge of both parties. PayPal, neither eBay, have been an acceptable improvement at all. When it began, no bank account was required. I still have a claim against PayPal, that which as now looking is USD 280.38 it will not return my use of it. I only want the account closed -- I'm willing to abandon claim if only the account was closed, yet PayPal runs me through the same verification scheme of which it causes estoppel.

  12. Facts on hemp superiority to trees. on New IBM Ultra Fast Printer · · Score: 0
    I pulled this from here and find it intriguing. The only verifiable proof I can attest is that the Constitution for the United States is written on a canvas derived of hemp, and it sits in presentable quality since 1871. Therefore, I quote the above URL, in duplicate;

    HEMP: THE WORLD'S MOST BENEFICIAL NATURAL RESOURCE?

    AMAZING FACTS ABOUT AN AMAZING PLANT

    * On an annual basis, 1 acre of hemp will produce as much fiber as 2 to 3 acres of cotton. Hemp fiber is stronger and softer than cotton, lasts twice as long as cotton, and will not mildew. Many textile products (shirts, jackets, pants, backpacks, etc.) made from 100% hemp are now available.

    * Cotton grows only in moderate climates and requires more water than hemp; but hemp is frost tolerant, requires only moderate amounts of water, and grows in all 50 states. Cotton requires large quantities of pesticides and herbicides--50% of the world's pesticides/herbicides are used on cotton. But hemp requires no pesticides, no herbicides, and only moderate amounts of fertilizer.

    * On an annual basis, 1 acre of hemp will produce as much paper as 2 to 4 acres of trees. From tissue paper to cardboard, all types of paper products can be produced from hemp. Global demand for paper will double within 25 years. Unless tree-free sources of paper are developed, there is no way to meet future demand without causing massive deforestation and environmental damage. Hemp is the world's most promising source of tree-free paper.

    * The quality of hemp paper is superior to tree-based paper. Hemp paper will last hundreds of years without degrading, can be recycled many more times than tree-based paper, and requires less toxic chemicals in the manufacturing process than does paper made from trees.

    * Hemp can be used to produce fiberboard that is stronger than wood, lighter than wood, and fire retardant. Substituting hemp fiberboard for timber would further reduce the need to cut down our forests. Hemp can also be used to produce strong, durable and environmentally-friendly plastic substitutes. Thousands of products made from petroleum-based plastics can be produced from hemp-based composites. Mercedes Benz of Germany has recently begun manufacturing automobile bodies and dashboards made from hemp.

    * It takes years for trees to grow until they can be harvested for paper or wood, but hemp is ready for harvesting only 120 days after it is planted. Hemp can grow on most land suitable for farming, but forests and tree farms require large tracts of land available in few locations. Harvesting hemp rather than trees would also eliminate erosion due to logging, thereby reducing topsoil loss and water pollution caused by soil runoff.

    * Hemp seeds contain a protein that is more nutritious and more economical to produce than soybean protein. Hemp seeds are not intoxicating. Hemp seed protein can be used to produce virtually any product made from soybean: tofu, veggie burgers, butter, cheese, salad oils, ice cream, milk, etc. Hemp seed can also be ground into a nutritious flour that can be used to produce baked goods such as pasta, cookies, and breads.

    * Hemp seed oil can be used to produce non-toxic diesel fuel, paint, varnish, detergent, ink and lubricating oil. Because hemp seeds account for up to half the weight of a mature hemp plant, hemp seed is a viable source for these products.

    * Just as corn can be converted into clean-burning ethanol fue

  13. Come to think of it, that is anatomically correct. on UK Scientists to Create Embryo From Two Women · · Score: 0

    All animalia symetrically develop a nipple or a complete breast upon every isolated abdominal muscle. I don't mean to sound obvious or sarcastic as I say; females in man-kind, developed into fertile women, only two mucous (mammary) glands will develop to secrete "milk" through two developed breasts and nipples. I do not think of man-kind as being completly developed, because the flesh appears capable of procuring traits that may have been abandoned unlike other mammals.

    At least the Google search was honest...

    There is a comment made in 1999 from someone and then there is this hand-drawn picture illustrating a case of a four-nippled man.

  14. Quick summary of his website... on ESR Gets Job Offer From Microsoft · · Score: 0



    ESR software page
    ESR projects page
    ESR continuity page (appears to be a will)

    The more notable that I am aware and use daily or monthly are termcap, ncurses, INTERCAL, fetchmail, sed, gif2png, and gpsd. He also is contributor of a false english dialect that tends to do more harm than good; The Jargon File (aka the Hacker's Dictionary).

    Happy to help.

  15. Do you realy want it? on Linspire 5.0 Free For Limited Time · · Score: 0

    Linspire -- the expensive Linux; A Linux forever crippled in the "root" user mask; awaiting to succumb to that unknown malicious program taking the entire filesystem with it; and allowing a desktop end-user that could erase a file as easily as were in a Microsoft Windows 98 C:\Windows\System32 directory: count me out! It's a sacrifice for no gain, but the prettiest desktop environment and an excellent ("Click'n'Run") system and application maintenance. This could all be done on Microsoft Windows and none would know it were Linux save the penuin icon and the GPL here and there. I had to say it, and one more thing to say; Linspire has caused an exctraction of currency in equal likeness to the history of Microsoft Windows; when it breaks (often), I'm contracted to fix it. Please everyone, avoid this Linux flavor unless you want to cure it of its illnesses. Network Redundancy Administrator, dude! Christ M. Gregory-Thomas

  16. If Marx made a dictionary, it would not end. on Lessig - Public Domain Dead in 35 Years · · Score: 0
    I've known for years that a word to one man could mean a completly different definition to another. There are also plain words that are defined differently as Plain Words. This is no different than comparing an estate with Real Estate(R), or the world with the Real World(R), or the public domain with Republic(R).

    As it goes for "communist", I think it good to reference an etymological dictionary, but I can't find one at the moment so I'll pick the primitive definitions used at Dictionary.com to isolate the definate syn;

    com- or col- or con-
    pref.
    Together; with; joint; jointly

    Latin municiplis, from municipium, town, from municeps, citizen : munus

    Middle English comunen, to have common dealings with, converse, from Old French communer, to make common, share (from commun, common. See common), and perhaps from Old French communier, to share in the Communion (from Late Latin communicare, from Latin, to communicate. See communicate).

    common -

    French, independent municipality, from Old French comugne, from Medieval Latin commnia, community, from neuter of Latin commnis, common. See mei-1 in Indo-European Roots.

    mon Pronunciation Key (mn)
    n. Scots

    Man.

    Note from NRAdude: I want it to be known that the Scots perhaps have the most original english dialect because unlike England, the Scots prevented the invasion of Roman occupation armies and posts thus preventing Latin inflection on the Scots dialect. See history on Hadrian's wall. :Note from NRAdude

    monk Pronunciation Key (mngk) n.

    A man who is a member of a brotherhood living in a monastery and devoted to a discipline prescribed by his order: a Carthusian monk; a Buddhist monk.

    Middle English munk, from Old English munuc, from Late Latin monachus, from Late Greek monakhos, from Greek, single, from monos. See men-4 in Indo-European Roots.

    I think it good everyone open their bibles to see that man is somewhat self-existing "in the image of God." Then there is the orderly conduct into brotherhood, an immediate family that appears as a chosen commune that has attached to a societal compact (contrat) with a "family name" (mine is singular Mundt whereby could also be refined plural as the Mundts), and then reading further I think it notable that people are bonded to their societal (social) compact from whence they then can assemble a vessel (that I enjoy calling a Citizenship). "congregate" is prefatory to the actual assembly; not yet assembled or counted but nearing that action (congregation), as it would seem the Lord counts His people (those social compacts).

    congregate Pronunciation Key (knggr-gt)
    tr. & intr.v. congregated, congregating, congregates

    To bring or come together in a group, crowd, or assembly. See Synonyms at gather.

    adj. (-gt)

    1. Gathered; assembled.

    Now what was I going to say? I'm speaking of the etymology "communist" is a good word that advocates "common", while everyone around me always think of a biased "Communism" brought by Marx and his Order conspired from his societal compact (an "Order" within a society, chicken-egg hatched from a chicken-egg) that delegates invasion of privacy and property and voiding the relation and similar thoughts (brotherhood) in change for a share in property that will never be fee simple. I distinctly remember that such thoughts on "Communism" originated from corporate Banks and the role of the non-communist Communists that sabotaged and exited America durring the War of 1871, causing a shrink for the United States back into George Washington's District of Columbia. In the verry essence of etymology, communism is as though an honest rescind from a society. Thence, even the etymology in "capit

  17. Re:I see a remedy to all of this "soccer mom" bant on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 0
    I have READ and RE-READ your post several TIMES and I still have FUCKING idea what the HELL you are TALKING about. Babelfish was equally confused; PLEASE translate to ENGLISH.
    I'm more atuned to the modern english language cognized in the Year of Our Lord one-thousand-and-six-hundred. My apologies if some of the customs is trivial to you, and I'll explain this moment as it is known today. As I previously posted, to build context that a Desktop Computer is admittedly not understood by people that interact with the same tools in singular form; performing drafting, calculations, communication, records, and piracy functions; Look on the rear of a computer and there are the service options of various Input and Ouput nodes for processes. Kazaa is an agent of a communications protocol stack (a post to courier messages) in the application layer. The functionality the Courts are challenging is misplaced in such a way that it is criticizing both the application and Internet Protocol, not Kazaa (application) itself. Blaming Kazaa fo the verry use of TCP/IP is misplaced judice, and no different then arousing a phsychotic complex in determing whether a man burned down a house or a fire burned down a house. Your complaint has no substance that I can draft remedy. You must be an ass if you don't know that all mail matter discarded at a post, even through TCP/IP, is the post for which is foundation for the walls and roof over intelect built upon a copper and fiber-optic foundation. The Courts are slandering more than the application layer; they're trying to regulate communcations that can be tunnelled as worms in soil. And we've seen worm-sign none the likes of God has seen (Kazaa, Bittorent, Morpheus, Gnutella, Sharezaa, Bearshare, Limewire, FreeNet, et al). Network Redundancy Administrator, dude! Christ M. Gregory-Thomas -- "Trouble-shooting your computer problems since the beginning of Linux on Earth"
  18. I see a remedy to all of this "soccer mom" banter. on Mom, and Now Judge, Stand Up to RIAA · · Score: 0
    I see a remedy to all of this "soccer mom" banter.
    I have mod points, but there's no -1 asshole option.
    The JUDGE was reasonable in questioning the character and competancy of the accused madam; with some meditation, she could realize the potential of a Desktop Computer without the assistance of others. A Desktop Computer serves as a fused repository of all prior-existing fassionable tools and mechanisms to interpret records: developed into one package, but with more weaknesses than the tools it replaced. Sharing files is no different than the duties of a Postmaster in a locale town. Besides the points made, if you could moderate posts you respond to then you have no credibility as a Judge over a character because you are directly being involved in the dispute. I could see a weakness in the JUDGE that can be the end of the kind gestures to this blessed mother of five. I'm intrigued, that among the ill-will vested in that agent of RIAA, is a dull complacency that a post-facto court can hold a hearing to a second trial -- in violation to the Bill of Rights to the constitution we all know is dormant.
    And just how much time do you think a single mother of 5 has to devote to figuring out all the nifty shit a computer can do when she has work, bill, and five pesky kids to watch over and feed? Hell, I bet she uses her computer to do her taxes, pay bills and chat with family when she has time to use it at all.
    Then by your rational, she doesn't need a non-personal Desktop Computer; but a typewriter, paper, postal stamps, and a telephone for COPS and related BAR flies to direct their harassment around the King or Queen's stable. As a man having his ass handed back to him by a violent mob of soccer-moms, this madam has my support -- she is being exposed to the people she implies to have an agreement to pamper her children rather than teach them how to fight a pederast the ol' fassioned way. Should she surrender her Desktop Computer to the RIAA for not having a KEYBOARD LOCK active? She admits ignorance; I hope to God that executive administraitor doesn't plagiarize her signature to a COMPUTER SAFETY COURSE, or counterfeit a BILL to buy a SECURITY DEPOSIT BOX to hold that Desktop Computer when not active. Should inherint rights to property on magnetic computer storage be ignored? These were already answered, with prejudice, in other related matters. Yet, continuing the raional of someone that unrepentantly and unpedantically slanders someone as ignorant, what are the actual benefits of a computer that can't be furnished by less complex tools? An abacus can't get a virus. Maybe some fungus may grow from exposure to moisture. To this day, the only benefit of a computer is to shrink an entire library of information through a scanner and into a catalogue, engraved into a more efficient medium, and serve as a conduit to its rendering into the world. Other than that, a Desktop Computer is a step-back in efficiency with respects to serving as a seek into that said data. I hope you realize how defensive and rhetorical my above text has become, that anyone would consider reclusing into the aura of antique solutions -- but in a world where rights previously held by the people are converted into crimes, it looks like God-given(free) foods, remedies, solutions, good will progress, and entertainment trumps the schill offers and contractual agreements maliciously enacted at the bereft of the people that intend to perfect and discharge their share subscribed to a property or effect. Network Redundancy Administrator, dude! Christ M. Gregory-Thomas -- "Trouble-shooting your computer problems since the beginning of Linux on Earth"
  19. Consider the Slashdot solution. on Blocking a Nation's IP Space · · Score: 0

    Blocking the IP address of "offenders", hear recussal from the alleged "offenders" when they express their sincere concern and MD5'd IP address, let time pass, and unblock the IP. That doesn't work in anonymous communication and it shows. I'm stuck on the 'let time pass" part because brothers Rob and Robert hadn't responded yet on their findings in my special case. This is so effective, that this open wireless gateway near this Subway sandwhich shop was temporarily banned by Slashdot. In my situation, some lurker moderators slandered my posting record because of my flame to Oregon Judicial Department. Do you know anyone that would use more than five moderator points on someone they hate, and to make them appear as equal to a shocksite when not? I can't post anymore but through a Spain proxy. The Slashdot server can't determine prejudice from an honestly modded-down shocksite; lurker moderators act on behalf of the Slashdot IP ban mechanism when the greater population of moderators are not at attention. I've incurred such, read about it here. I think the Slashdot moderation mechanism is the most effective only if DRM was integrated into the webbrowser and subjective operating system. There is no denying that regulating communcation leads to privileged access; but I entertain everyone with a Thomas Jefferson quote that is universal and hints privilege as "The only free man is a lawful man." I'm happy to contribute meta-moderation and moderation with good prejudice; I presume everyone is reasonable or acting in good faith, that there is a cause and effect that perhaps I have not seen even in the most inflamatory or offtopic posts. Concerning intent, it's always the unseen minority that causes such casualty, but that is the joy and glory in participating and discerning character in a democratic way of conversation. Websites that have little interactivity need no eyes to scrutinize the information and need only rely on a Smart Firewall to decide where or what needs to be banned. Me: I just want to post on Slashdot naturally, and without a proxy. Thanks lurker moderators.

  20. Too bad DirectFB was not accounted for. on The State of Linux Graphics · · Score: 0

    (posting from a proxy because my Slashdot posting record incurred lurker moderation from some hateful users.)

    DirectFB is a good offer compared to all others. Linux graphics is not a bloody mess; there is a large choice of graphics rendering targets and each one has its quirks.

    DirectFB is an example of how ease and simplicity to build software for a use should be. If you want a graphics target specifically refined for Linux, then consider DirectFB. On that project page, there are similar hosted projects that bring it all together for a complete alternative and replacement for other X servers and bindings for tool-kits of greater popularity, as well as retaining compatibility. The graphics hardware support on DirectFB is limited to companies willing to document the hardware; thus, Matrox, 3Dfx, and ATI, Trident, some nVidia, and a couple others have optimized accelerated framebuffer support. Then to top it off, there is a related project that binds DRI accelerated openGL into the framebuffer without a X server, DirectFBGL (currently available only for Matrox hardware, but soon for ATI). Then aside from accelerated openGL of DRI in an accelerated framebuffer, there is a rootless X server package called XDirectFB.

    It's GPL, it was at FOSDEM, and it is specific for Linux. Anyone willing to bite on this software will avoid the large, complex, picky, software projects and the competitors known to be successors, and protests of existant alternatives thatslowly become worse than the cause of the move; allthewhile retaining compatibility.

  21. I hope not. Here is why. on Laser Cannons Coming to an F-16 Near You · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Consider these pictures (google'd cache) of an Apache helicopter with a shark face painted on it.

    I've come across some well-carried video footage
    of Apache helicopters shooting at suspected "terrorists" in Iraq. One of those video footages was especially criticized because the helicopter pilot misjudged some Iraqi farmers on a farm truck; of which all of them were killed. In the video, the gunman behind the weapon would receive orders to "hit him" or whatever slang code-speak, and some of the comments from the crew and such upon a successfull hit would be "head shot." I'm not criticizing the matter of men in military service in general, yet down to the core there is a sense of pride. I have no respect for people that speak in such ways when they execute whatever commands; and the same goes for wing-art on their war machination. Such is idle speach, expressions of no value, and are subject to the support of propoganda that can be used against them. Doesn't anyone learn from the dishonerable protests durring the Vietnam and Korean Wars waged by the United States? Surely, even the pilots behind the "black helicopters" that conspiracy nuts are aware to only use the minimum of expressions, and that include black-paint of which no matter of pride or slack advertising of their presence and intentions to draw criticism other than "those God-damn black helicopters" (pun intended).

    To bring more topic relevant to the Slashdot article, aftware from Sharks with lasers on their heads; Concerning the funds used to develop laser technologies; There seems to be an endless supply of currency available for which the military complex, even the PENTAGON, can dispose for weapons research. I remember about a year ago that China announced and berthed a new form of warship dubbed as the MISSILE FRIGATE. Yet, I distinctly don't remember China developing such weaponry at the debt of the people at China. But what do I know, when they are entreated and disposed as slaves; Can the same be said of the military complex at the United States, as described by then President of the United States, Dwight D. Eisenhower? The alleged national debt and the public debt is not being criticized enough. I only hope such technology can be developed casually, without such "debt" looming over the heads of the people.

    Every decade there is a war the United States is involved with, usually without the United States or CONGRESS declaring war, and the people are never allowed to recover from such debts alleged to them from participating in the subjective war. This surely falls into the financial scope of promisory notes, for which debt is slowly discharged by promissing to pay said debts when there is not enough money to pay such debt at the moment; does this not forecast the future of the people as economic slaves to military technology development? President of the United States, Andrew Jackson, was the last that sought to pay down the debt so far as a positive US $30,000.00, but war is always the excuse to bring the people further in debt. It's bad enough to militarily compete with China, a country where the people outweigh and outnumber Americans ten fold. It takes a lot of "balls" to try to compete with such a larger population technologically; Could this be the reason of DRM, to built an equivalent Great Wall over mastered information, so as to prevent what little technology and information from leaking into competitors?

    Lasers--sharks... uhm, yeah. I would've deleted the above, now realizing I am within the Off-Topic classification. Yet, at least I am honest and admit such. Moderate me, yet I am not a troll.

  22. There has been an inexpensive PPC available. on Yellow Dog Linux Finds New PPC Hardware Vendor · · Score: 0
    Not many people can take advantage of it because there aren't enough developers willing to make a good attempt to enable the solution for their needs. There hardware is available, now, you just need to look for it. I'll cite one source; Nintendo GameCube.

    If the average geek AND the average developer can't have easy access to PPC machines then Linux will stop being cross platform in a few years. It's ineveitable, and there is nothing nobody can do about it. Most people don't have 5000 dollars to burn just to have a extra server in their basement, or feel like spending 1000 dollars for a slow ass machine of lesser quality then what they can by at walmart for 300 dollars.

    I can show you where to get an inexpensive PowerPC system, a tuned ATI Radeon 7000 graphics and sound system, a miniature (8 centimeter) DVD disc drive, stackable form factor, and runs Linux; for under USD 75.00 -- Nintendo GameCube. Now before everyone complains that this is not a viable platform, then you all need to explain to me what is a viable platform; Nintendo GameCube has been active on the market and just needs more attention that it has received. Yet, it looks to be nearing its end of life -- which means this is no longer a inexpensive available PowerPC solution, it is a dirt-cheap solution. Currently, this (google'd cache) project has Linux booting. There are ports specifically optimized to the typical technical differences found in such vast open hardware implementations. And what is not to enjoy, besides the fact that all this systems usefulness is crumbled without "optional" network hardware that should have been included?
    The biggest hope for future PPC machine in my future will be the Sony PS3. If they release a Linux distro for it, I'll buy it in a second. At 3ghz with a limited core it will be somewhat faster then my aging AMD desktop and my 1.2ghz Ibook.

    I hope too, but is there any DRM? All these specialized platforms and architectures are being abused by DRM to prevent competent alternative code from loading. There are many google categorized searches for "PlayStation 3" and DRM. I think much of the intellectually free hardware has gone under the DRM radar and is being retired or being end-of-lifed, including GameCube. And if anyone wanted an inexpensive SGI MIPS graphics workstation, it looks like Nintendo 64 is already been shat off the case.
  23. Citing Authority against stealing children. on Oregon Government Supporting Open Source · · Score: -1, Troll

    I hold none above these;

    Genesis 1:27 (KJV1611);
    "So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them."

    Exodus 21:16 (KJV1611);
    "And he that stealeth a man, and selleth him, or if he be found in his hand, he shall surely be put to death."

    Psalm 127:3 (KJVAV1611);
    "Lo, children are an heritage of the LORD: and the fruit of the womb is his reward."

    Of'course the people of the State of Oregon are greatful to Almighty God for their freedom, as expressed in the preamble, but that freedom is so-conditioned by repenting of sin. As well, there are those of us in Oregon that choose not to separate into the State of Oregon, and sit in the banks in the original estate;

    1 Peter 2 (KJV1611);
    "1Wherefore laying aside all malice, and all guile, and hypocrisies, and envies, all evil speakings,2As newborn babes, desire the sincere milk of the word, that ye may grow thereby:3If so be ye have tasted that the Lord is gracious.4To whom coming, as unto a living stone, disallowed indeed of men, but chosen of God, and precious,5Ye also, as lively stones, are built up a spiritual house, an holy priesthood, to offer up spiritual sacrifices, acceptable to God by Jesus Christ.6Wherefore also it is contained in the scripture, Behold, I lay in Sion a chief corner stone, elect, precious: and he that believeth on him shall not be confounded.7Unto you therefore which believe he is precious: but unto them which be disobedient, the stone which the builders disallowed, the same is made the head of the corner,8And a stone of stumbling, and a rock of offence, even to them which stumble at the word, being disobedient: whereunto also they were appointed.9But ye are a chosen generation, a royal priesthood, an holy nation, a peculiar people; that ye should shew forth the praises of him who hath called you out of darkness into his marvellous light;10Which in time past were not a people, but are now the people of God: which had not obtained mercy, but now have obtained mercy.11Dearly beloved, I beseech you as strangers and pilgrims, abstain from fleshly lusts, which war against the soul;12Having your conversation honest among the Gentiles: that, whereas they speak against you as evildoers, they may by your good works, which they shall behold, glorify God in the day of visitation.13Submit yourselves to every ordinance of man for the Lord's sake: whether it be to the king, as supreme;14Or unto governors, as unto them that are sent by him for the punishment of evildoers, and for the praise of them that do well.15For so is the will of God, that with well doing ye may put to silence the ignorance of foolish men:16As free, and not using your liberty for a cloke of maliciousness, but as the servants of God.17Honour all men. Love the brotherhood. Fear God. Honour the king.18Servants, be subject to your masters with all fear; not only to the good and gentle, but also to the froward.19For this is thankworthy, if a man for conscience toward God endure grief, suffering wrongfully.20For what glory is it, if, when ye be buffeted for your faults, ye shall take it patiently? but if, when ye do well, and suffer for it, ye take it patiently, this is acceptable with God.21For even hereunto were ye called: because Christ also suffered for us, leaving us an example, that ye should follow his steps:22Who did no sin, neither was guile found in his mouth:23Who, when he was reviled, reviled not again; when he suffered, he threatened not; but committed himself to him that judgeth righteously:24Who his own self bare our sins in his own body on the tree, that we, being dead to sins, should live unto righteousness: by whose stripes ye were healed.25For ye were as sheep going astray; but are now returned unto the Shepherd and Bishop of your souls."

  24. Oregon Judicial Department? AVOICEFORCHILDREN.COM on Oregon Government Supporting Open Source · · Score: -1, Troll

    Perhaps you should be worying about other things, like correcting your executive administraitors you have up there calling themselves judges.

    Open Source in principle is first priority, but you all have lost all credibility with the people.

    Let me remind you, sister Pamela may have died, but that doesn't mean you can walk around comfortably. If you had nothing to do with thieving that child from the family's front-yard, I suggest you get a new job that will not get you tangled with such corrupt government or some depraived soul mistakes you for a can of whoop-ass.

    http://avoiceforchildren.com/in_the/beginning.html

    Gregory-Thomas, sui juris

  25. Here is one, titled Tremulous. on Quake 3 Source Code to be Released · · Score: 0, Troll

    Here are screenshots and downloadable media of Tremulous, currently a Quake3 full conversion that would benefit perhaps of being released as its own game.