Um, I hate to correct you, but that's not 1850 feet *per second*, that's 1850 feet per *minute*. It works out to about 30 feet per second - still rather fast, but not impossible.
Mind you, that's assuming a direct run, top to bottom, no stops en route, and no time for accelleration and deceleration - those will alter the 30 fps figure somewhat.
Why not just rot13 the song, and rot13 it back at the receiver's end? Or, better still, build a rot13 filter, to slide in between the music file and the mp3 player? The rot13'd file should have a wildly different "fingerprint" than the original.
By doing things this way the song stays in "encrypted" form on the HD, and the "encryption" would be covered by the DMCA as well, so that the RIAA making a stink about it would be a defacto admission that they have reverse-engineered the "encryption" scheme, making them liable to be sued? Think of it as akin to the pig latinization of the file names.
Of course, that didn't last long, either. Guess nobody had the finances to be able to sue the RIAA. *sigh*
Yup, spread spectrum might well work. I've recently seen it being done on cordless phones, so they do have a form that'll work for microwave-range signals (the spread spectrum stuff is in the 900MHz range, near microwaves).
To other users of that frequency, it'll look like the noise floor is a bit higher. This may be an issue to satellite TV broadcasters - if the local noise floor gets too high, it will degrade their signal:(
As the article points out, in America, the dish antennas all point south. Now, unless this new service is using a huge array of dish antennas themselves, to aim their signal at only people who live south of them, that means that their signal will be in sight of anybody *north* of them.
As the satellite's signals aren't very strong by the time they arrive here, it won't take much to interfere with it. Even if Northpoint is using a dish to beam its signal to each individual customer, there *will* be objects that will reflect some of the signal, at odd and unpredictable angles.
Further, Northpoint is trying to claim this technology for use in "rural" areas. Um, hello? In rural areas, there are not *that* many people within line-of-sight of the antenna (and believe me, at frequencies as high as they're using, it's *all* line-of-sight).
I've been in HAM radio for about ten years now, working mostly at VHF, UHF and microwave frequencies, and I have *never* heard such a load of rubbish as this. While I'm not fond of the Powers That Be, they're right - Northpoint *is* trying to make a naked grab for their chunk of the spectrum.
There's a plant that grows wild in India, and parts of China, all over that part of the world. It's a variety of coleus, called "coleus forskohlii".
This plant is known to have many useful properties - it helps speed up nerve signaling a tad (useful for MS sufferers, such as myself), as well as helping asthma, and even lowering blood pressure. I can buy capsules containing a measured amount of dry plant, even standardized to a particular amount of the active chemical, forskolin. I can buy freeze-dried root. I can buy liquid extract of this plant.
I can get studies done that tell what climate and nutrients are needed to maximize the content of forskolin. I can find all of this on the web.
What I cannot find online is a source for the seeds, or live roots, or even live plants, so that I can actually *grow* this stuff for myself. Instead, to use this to help my multiple sclerosis, I must buy it already-made into something, either pills or capsules, at *incredible* markup.
As 60 capsules generally costs about $15, and, for MS, I'd need to take six daily (two at a time, three times a day), this adds up VERY fast. Factor in at I'm on disability, with *very* limited income, and it gets even more entertaining.
From my searching, I've seen that I am by far not the only person scouring the Web for this plant. Every site that has requests for plants, seems to have several people looking for this plant. I know it's available - not only are the places that sell capsules able to grow it, but the people who've done the studies on growing it had to have live plants.
But if it's available on the Web, no search engine I've yet seen can find it.
The post wanted a way for a teacher to disable it, not the students. As the teacher should have access to the network, this still might work, but it begs the question, why does the teacher need to do this if s/he does not have access to the passwird in Bess? And, from other comments, Bess supposedly bans sites that have been "verified" by others, so, it is claimed, it won't ban biology sites, just pr0n.
Methinks that, perhaps, the original comment may not have been entirely truthful? Could it be just a student who wants us to find a way around the censorware, so he can drool over naughty pics? That's sad, but I'd guess likely here.
OK, up front, I am not a kernel hacker, I'm just a dweeb who used to use this technique, in essence, to bypass copyprotection in games that I'd bought - got tired of having to pull out the book to answer a lame question before running a game that I paid for already.
Anyways, the technique is to scan all of RAM (not necessary to hit the swap file, unless your machine is REAL ram-deprived)(note: in Whine-Doze, this must be doone at the lowest level of access possible, as a "trusted" part of the OS - could be maybe a device driver? or maybe a DLL? Not sure) and look for the word, say, "SEXFARBLE". If your match is only on the first three letters but not the whole word, try replacing one of the letters with a "z". See if the machine runs, still - with a small word like "sex", it's possible that it will show up as an instruction, not data, so be prepared to have a BSOD:(
A way to avoid BSODs would be to look *near* the word sex, and use your eyes and brain to infer if that area looks like data, or code... it shouldn't be that hard to guess.:)
Anyways, once the letter has been changed, see if you can get to a biology web site whose only reason for blocking was that "naughty" word. If so, congrats, you've just defeated the program. If not, well, keep looking.
It may be that they keep the text in a plaintext file, but that's unlikely. It may also be, if they are that paranoid, that the "naughty word list" is stored encrypted in ram, in which case you'd need to violate the DMCA and hack the software.
Anyways, if you're serious about this, it may be worth a try.
MS has had Java for some time now, and eveb tinkered with its insides to make it more "their" product. Now, they have a competitive product, backed by the full marketing muscle of Microsofy, doing very much the same things that Java does, and you're surprised?
Look into the "way-back" machine a while, back to the VERY early days of the PC. The biggest-selling, most-popular C compiler of the time was Lattice C. Microsoft bought a license to re-sell Lattice C as their ows, Microsoft C compiler. Lattice had a different way of numbering what they called "major" releases, and Microsoft just upped the numbers when they felt like it. About the time they released MSC 4.0 (competing with Lattice C 2.something), they finally were writing their own C compiler, not using Lattice's... and 4.0 broke damned near everything. Stuff needed to be totally re-written for it, libraried stopped working, etc etc etc. Not long afterwards, they came out with MSC version 5, and things started to stabilize... and by then, Lattice, still not even at version 3, was dead meat.
Lattice eventually got bought by a company who wanted a different compiler that they made. The new company dropped everything that Lattice had, except the part they wanted. The company I was with switched to Borland's Turbo C, and eventually we folded too - too much marketing "input", and not enough engineers to keep the ever-expanding code monster in check. *sigh*
So, anyways, does it make some sense, now, what MS is doing here? They seem to be following their own time-honored pattern of luring companies in with what looks like a good deal, then poisoning them from the inside. I really hope that Sun can survive this - I have a friend, GianPaoulo, who recently started work with them. He's brilliant, and I'd hate like asll Hades for him to end up RIFfed over this:(
It's nice to see, for a change, some cooperation, not mutual assured destruction. I hope this works well - it'd be real nice to have an encyclopedia that maybe, just maybe, can readily be updated and corrected by everybody.
Um, IANARS, but... hmmm... wouldn't the electromagnetic pulse of setting off nuclear bombs in space play merry hell with anything we have up therein orbit? I know, they're all rad-hardened, but still.
As I see it, the problem with tapping other planets is that they all have a "gravity well", even our Moon. Asteroids have very little mass, comparatively, hence very little gravity to have to fight when sending the material back to Earth.
The bad news about asteroids is that they're far away, but it's not like we burn extra fuel on a longer trip. Sure, if we sent humans there, we'd need air and food and water, but we're talking robots not humans.
Um, in case you weren't following hardware a few years back, Seagate *bought* most of those "other" manufacturers. If Seagate says "yes", well, there goes most of the "other" guys, too.
Clever little script kiddies here have either crackerjacked my password, or have hacked/. itself. They were even congratulating themselves on how clever this was, on a thread I'd posted to a day ago.
It's been changed, and shall be changed fairly often, too. Maybe this will help. For those who've read these, you *might* know me well enough to realize that my spelling is darned good, and that I've never been raped, nor have I ever "had" a man, period.
As for the Jews, that's too sick to comment on. Perhaps I should run this past my ex-boss, one of the nicest men I've ever known, himself Jewish? He may get a mild giggle from it. I'm sure my partner, herself Jewish, would be amazed:)
Um, this bird was NOT designed, nor built, by NASA. It was designed and built by a corporation, of radio amateurs from all over the world. They had the idea, they raised the money, they built it, tested it, and paid to launch it.
Don't pin this one on NASA. The hams decided they didn't really need rad-hardened hardware and multiple redundancies. They're learning the hard way, I fear:(
Yup. It picks up signals, usually on one RF band, then retransmits them back again on another. The ones I used to use were the Russian satellites, with an uplink on the 10-Meter band, and a downlink on 2Meters. My station was *way* underequipped to run the 2M / 440MHz birds, and I had no equipment at all any higher than 440MHz.
The antennas were huge, the feedline expensive, the low-noise preamps finiky, and compensating for the doppler shift as the bird orbitted was, well, entertaining - but it *could* give people a chance to try to talk all over the world (well, over a lot of it, depending on what was visible to the satellite at the time).
However, once I got a reliable, steady Net connection (640kbps bi-di DSL), my interest in Ham radio rather waned. I gave most of the equipment to a fellow Ham, who was more into that than I was.
Here in Seattle, we have two ways to use the net. The first is through PCs, and of course censorware will work there just fine. The second, tho, is through text-only terminals that use Lynx as a Web browser. How will this new law work there?
Granted, Lynx as a Web tool sucks rocks. No pictures means you'll miss a *lot* of the Web, true, but you'll still be able to read the text. Isn't that what's important, on the non-pr0n sites being filtered?
Also, don't count on this being defeated in court anytime soon. Remember, it's our own US Supreme Court that staged the country's first bloodless coup with GWB, simply because they could.
Hmm, at those temps, don't you think the water will be frozen? Hmm? And, well, gee, a large chunk of frozen water hardly constitutes an "ocean", doncha think?
Moron. Yes, it'd be downright chilly, and I'd bet the air wouldn't be breathable. Haven't you ever heard of a little thing called a "space suit"? They have air, and heaters too, Granted, they're kinda cumbersome, but hey, we've already used them, on the Moon, to play golf. I doubt surfing would be *much* less plausible.
"on the other hand, how far away are we from people having enough processing power to not want/need to upgrade anymore?"
I used to be a total and devout speed addict, to the point of slowing down the refresh rate on my turbo-PCclones to squeeze an extra 2-3% out of them, running a program to determine the idea HD interleave factor *and* skew rate, and de-fragging the disk every night as I was leaving work.
Now, however, my partner has a K6-2 500, and I've got the 400. I'm looking at building a new machine... for *her*, not for me.
Seems I no longer really do much that needs that much speed. Even fancier new games leave me cold.
Sure, I probably will buy new stuff, eventually, but I'm no longer addicted to it. The growth *is* stopping.
We had a unit, an older prototype that Management, in all its wisdom, suddenly wanted to use to demonstrate some new software we were writting... *tomorrow morning*. The hardware guys dragged it up front, so us software geeks could load it, yet no matter what they did, the unit was DOA. Stone, utterly, irrevocably dead.
Love and Light,
Jeannette
Three hardware guys tried everything they could dream up on it, and it stayed dead. I, the neo-Pagan High Priestess, came over to it, touched the same boards the guys did, wiggled the same wires, said my best "raise dead" spell, and it came up fine.
We loaded the software on it, and some genius shut it off. It refused to come back to life. The hardware guys did all they could, to no avail. I was, jokingly, dragged over, and did a repeat performance. It came up fine.
We let it run all night, but the cleaning crew unplugged it. The next morning, it was stone dead again. Guess who did a third "raise dead" spell and laying-on of hands? Guess what worked, again?
They left it there, and brought the Lords High Muckeymuck to our area to demo it. When done, it was unplugged. I never tried again. It remained dead untill it was scrapped.
Um, "long-haired Satan-worshipping Wiccans"? Gee, I find it rather hard to worship a being that I feel does not exist.
Yes, I'm Wiccan - Dianic Wiccan, to be precise. I'm an ordained minister, even have my certificate to show that, hanging on my wall (not that it does me any good, being solitary, but still...).
Yes, I have long hair as well. I find long hair sensual and soft, two aspects of myself that are hard to express with computers. I'll probably lop some off soon - these split ends are killing me:-\
Am I then to be considered a criminal? From this anonymous coward's words, it would appear so. Gee, this brave, right-minded God-fearing Christian wouldn't even share his (or her) identity with us. Why am I neither surprised nor impressed?
Well, if they can make skin invisible to a depth of 10mm, that would really make laser hair removal a viable thing:) and I'd think that a tattoo, "floating" in the air, would be cool:)
But then, if they did this to the eyelids, say, in some nasty furrin country's jail, it'd play merry hell with getting to sleep...
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Um, I hate to correct you, but that's not 1850 feet *per second*, that's 1850 feet per *minute*. It works out to about 30 feet per second - still rather fast, but not impossible.
Mind you, that's assuming a direct run, top to bottom, no stops en route, and no time for accelleration and deceleration - those will alter the 30 fps figure somewhat.
Why not just rot13 the song, and rot13 it back at the receiver's end? Or, better still, build a rot13 filter, to slide in between the music file and the mp3 player? The rot13'd file should have a wildly different "fingerprint" than the original.
By doing things this way the song stays in "encrypted" form on the HD, and the "encryption" would be covered by the DMCA as well, so that the RIAA making a stink about it would be a defacto admission that they have reverse-engineered the "encryption" scheme, making them liable to be sued? Think of it as akin to the pig latinization of the file names.
Of course, that didn't last long, either. Guess nobody had the finances to be able to sue the RIAA. *sigh*
Yup, spread spectrum might well work. I've recently seen it being done on cordless phones, so they do have a form that'll work for microwave-range signals (the spread spectrum stuff is in the 900MHz range, near microwaves).
:(
To other users of that frequency, it'll look like the noise floor is a bit higher. This may be an issue to satellite TV broadcasters - if the local noise floor gets too high, it will degrade their signal
As the article points out, in America, the dish antennas all point south. Now, unless this new service is using a huge array of dish antennas themselves, to aim their signal at only people who live south of them, that means that their signal will be in sight of anybody *north* of them.
As the satellite's signals aren't very strong by the time they arrive here, it won't take much to interfere with it. Even if Northpoint is using a dish to beam its signal to each individual customer, there *will* be objects that will reflect some of the signal, at odd and unpredictable angles.
Further, Northpoint is trying to claim this technology for use in "rural" areas. Um, hello? In rural areas, there are not *that* many people within line-of-sight of the antenna (and believe me, at frequencies as high as they're using, it's *all* line-of-sight).
I've been in HAM radio for about ten years now, working mostly at VHF, UHF and microwave frequencies, and I have *never* heard such a load of rubbish as this. While I'm not fond of the Powers That Be, they're right - Northpoint *is* trying to make a naked grab for their chunk of the spectrum.
Don't waste your money buying their stock.
There's a plant that grows wild in India, and parts of China, all over that part of the world. It's a variety of coleus, called "coleus forskohlii".
This plant is known to have many useful properties - it helps speed up nerve signaling a tad (useful for MS sufferers, such as myself), as well as helping asthma, and even lowering blood pressure. I can buy capsules containing a measured amount of dry plant, even standardized to a particular amount of the active chemical, forskolin. I can buy freeze-dried root. I can buy liquid extract of this plant.
I can get studies done that tell what climate and nutrients are needed to maximize the content of forskolin. I can find all of this on the web.
What I cannot find online is a source for the seeds, or live roots, or even live plants, so that I can actually *grow* this stuff for myself. Instead, to use this to help my multiple sclerosis, I must buy it already-made into something, either pills or capsules, at *incredible* markup.
As 60 capsules generally costs about $15, and, for MS, I'd need to take six daily (two at a time, three times a day), this adds up VERY fast. Factor in at I'm on disability, with *very* limited income, and it gets even more entertaining.
From my searching, I've seen that I am by far not the only person scouring the Web for this plant. Every site that has requests for plants, seems to have several people looking for this plant. I know it's available - not only are the places that sell capsules able to grow it, but the people who've done the studies on growing it had to have live plants.
But if it's available on the Web, no search engine I've yet seen can find it.
The post wanted a way for a teacher to disable it, not the students. As the teacher should have access to the network, this still might work, but it begs the question, why does the teacher need to do this if s/he does not have access to the passwird in Bess? And, from other comments, Bess supposedly bans sites that have been "verified" by others, so, it is claimed, it won't ban biology sites, just pr0n.
Methinks that, perhaps, the original comment may not have been entirely truthful? Could it be just a student who wants us to find a way around the censorware, so he can drool over naughty pics? That's sad, but I'd guess likely here.
OK, up front, I am not a kernel hacker, I'm just a dweeb who used to use this technique, in essence, to bypass copyprotection in games that I'd bought - got tired of having to pull out the book to answer a lame question before running a game that I paid for already.
:(
:)
Anyways, the technique is to scan all of RAM (not necessary to hit the swap file, unless your machine is REAL ram-deprived)(note: in Whine-Doze, this must be doone at the lowest level of access possible, as a "trusted" part of the OS - could be maybe a device driver? or maybe a DLL? Not sure) and look for the word, say, "SEXFARBLE". If your match is only on the first three letters but not the whole word, try replacing one of the letters with a "z". See if the machine runs, still - with a small word like "sex", it's possible that it will show up as an instruction, not data, so be prepared to have a BSOD
A way to avoid BSODs would be to look *near* the word sex, and use your eyes and brain to infer if that area looks like data, or code... it shouldn't be that hard to guess.
Anyways, once the letter has been changed, see if you can get to a biology web site whose only reason for blocking was that "naughty" word. If so, congrats, you've just defeated the program. If not, well, keep looking.
It may be that they keep the text in a plaintext file, but that's unlikely. It may also be, if they are that paranoid, that the "naughty word list" is stored encrypted in ram, in which case you'd need to violate the DMCA and hack the software.
Anyways, if you're serious about this, it may be worth a try.
MS has had Java for some time now, and eveb tinkered with its insides to make it more "their" product. Now, they have a competitive product, backed by the full marketing muscle of Microsofy, doing very much the same things that Java does, and you're surprised?
... and 4.0 broke damned near everything. Stuff needed to be totally re-written for it, libraried stopped working, etc etc etc. Not long afterwards, they came out with MSC version 5, and things started to stabilize ... and by then, Lattice, still not even at version 3, was dead meat.
:(
Look into the "way-back" machine a while, back to the VERY early days of the PC. The biggest-selling, most-popular C compiler of the time was Lattice C. Microsoft bought a license to re-sell Lattice C as their ows, Microsoft C compiler. Lattice had a different way of numbering what they called "major" releases, and Microsoft just upped the numbers when they felt like it. About the time they released MSC 4.0 (competing with Lattice C 2.something), they finally were writing their own C compiler, not using Lattice's
Lattice eventually got bought by a company who wanted a different compiler that they made. The new company dropped everything that Lattice had, except the part they wanted. The company I was with switched to Borland's Turbo C, and eventually we folded too - too much marketing "input", and not enough engineers to keep the ever-expanding code monster in check. *sigh*
So, anyways, does it make some sense, now, what MS is doing here? They seem to be following their own time-honored pattern of luring companies in with what looks like a good deal, then poisoning them from the inside. I really hope that Sun can survive this - I have a friend, GianPaoulo, who recently started work with them. He's brilliant, and I'd hate like asll Hades for him to end up RIFfed over this
It's nice to see, for a change, some cooperation, not mutual assured destruction. I hope this works well - it'd be real nice to have an encyclopedia that maybe, just maybe, can readily be updated and corrected by everybody.
Um, IANARS, but ... hmmm ... wouldn't the electromagnetic pulse of setting off nuclear bombs in space play merry hell with anything we have up therein orbit? I know, they're all rad-hardened, but still.
Maybe this is one reason why not?
The monolith vanished. Oh well. Then again, the original vanished, too, so maybe, just maybe ... :)
As I see it, the problem with tapping other planets is that they all have a "gravity well", even our Moon. Asteroids have very little mass, comparatively, hence very little gravity to have to fight when sending the material back to Earth.
The bad news about asteroids is that they're far away, but it's not like we burn extra fuel on a longer trip. Sure, if we sent humans there, we'd need air and food and water, but we're talking robots not humans.
Um, in case you weren't following hardware a few years back, Seagate *bought* most of those "other" manufacturers. If Seagate says "yes", well, there goes most of the "other" guys, too.
No crackerjack needed, check the user numbers ... Gee, that's lame :) 17812 is me, any other number is not-me. Simply little boys trying to have fun. :)
Clever little script kiddies here have either crackerjacked my password, or have hacked /. itself. They were even congratulating themselves on how clever this was, on a thread I'd posted to a day ago.
:)
It's been changed, and shall be changed fairly often, too. Maybe this will help. For those who've read these, you *might* know me well enough to realize that my spelling is darned good, and that I've never been raped, nor have I ever "had" a man, period.
As for the Jews, that's too sick to comment on. Perhaps I should run this past my ex-boss, one of the nicest men I've ever known, himself Jewish? He may get a mild giggle from it. I'm sure my partner, herself Jewish, would be amazed
Um, this bird was NOT designed, nor built, by NASA. It was designed and built by a corporation, of radio amateurs from all over the world. They had the idea, they raised the money, they built it, tested it, and paid to launch it.
:(
Don't pin this one on NASA. The hams decided they didn't really need rad-hardened hardware and multiple redundancies. They're learning the hard way, I fear
Yup. It picks up signals, usually on one RF band, then retransmits them back again on another. The ones I used to use were the Russian satellites, with an uplink on the 10-Meter band, and a downlink on 2Meters. My station was *way* underequipped to run the 2M / 440MHz birds, and I had no equipment at all any higher than 440MHz.
The antennas were huge, the feedline expensive, the low-noise preamps finiky, and compensating for the doppler shift as the bird orbitted was, well, entertaining - but it *could* give people a chance to try to talk all over the world (well, over a lot of it, depending on what was visible to the satellite at the time).
However, once I got a reliable, steady Net connection (640kbps bi-di DSL), my interest in Ham radio rather waned. I gave most of the equipment to a fellow Ham, who was more into that than I was.
As a ham who's used satellites before, this is awful :( I hope they figure it out soon.
Here in Seattle, we have two ways to use the net. The first is through PCs, and of course censorware will work there just fine. The second, tho, is through text-only terminals that use Lynx as a Web browser. How will this new law work there?
Granted, Lynx as a Web tool sucks rocks. No pictures means you'll miss a *lot* of the Web, true, but you'll still be able to read the text. Isn't that what's important, on the non-pr0n sites being filtered?
Also, don't count on this being defeated in court anytime soon. Remember, it's our own US Supreme Court that staged the country's first bloodless coup with GWB, simply because they could.
Hmm, at those temps, don't you think the water will be frozen? Hmm? And, well, gee, a large chunk of frozen water hardly constitutes an "ocean", doncha think?
Moron. Yes, it'd be downright chilly, and I'd bet the air wouldn't be breathable. Haven't you ever heard of a little thing called a "space suit"? They have air, and heaters too, Granted, they're kinda cumbersome, but hey, we've already used them, on the Moon, to play golf. I doubt surfing would be *much* less plausible.
This could be cool! Maybe we can go surfing on Ganymede soon?
"on the other hand, how far away are we from people having enough processing power to not want/need to upgrade anymore?"
... for *her*, not for me.
I used to be a total and devout speed addict, to the point of slowing down the refresh rate on my turbo-PCclones to squeeze an extra 2-3% out of them, running a program to determine the idea HD interleave factor *and* skew rate, and de-fragging the disk every night as I was leaving work.
Now, however, my partner has a K6-2 500, and I've got the 400. I'm looking at building a new machine
Seems I no longer really do much that needs that much speed. Even fancier new games leave me cold.
Sure, I probably will buy new stuff, eventually, but I'm no longer addicted to it. The growth *is* stopping.
Story from my last job ...
... *tomorrow morning*. The hardware guys dragged it up front, so us software geeks could load it, yet no matter what they did, the unit was DOA. Stone, utterly, irrevocably dead.
We had a unit, an older prototype that Management, in all its wisdom, suddenly wanted to use to demonstrate some new software we were writting
Love and Light,
Jeannette
Three hardware guys tried everything they could dream up on it, and it stayed dead. I, the neo-Pagan High Priestess, came over to it, touched the same boards the guys did, wiggled the same wires, said my best "raise dead" spell, and it came up fine.
We loaded the software on it, and some genius shut it off. It refused to come back to life. The hardware guys did all they could, to no avail. I was, jokingly, dragged over, and did a repeat performance. It came up fine.
We let it run all night, but the cleaning crew unplugged it. The next morning, it was stone dead again. Guess who did a third "raise dead" spell and laying-on of hands? Guess what worked, again?
They left it there, and brought the Lords High Muckeymuck to our area to demo it. When done, it was unplugged. I never tried again. It remained dead untill it was scrapped.
Who says magic doesn't work?
Um, "long-haired Satan-worshipping Wiccans"? Gee, I find it rather hard to worship a being that I feel does not exist.
:-\
Yes, I'm Wiccan - Dianic Wiccan, to be precise. I'm an ordained minister, even have my certificate to show that, hanging on my wall (not that it does me any good, being solitary, but still...).
Yes, I have long hair as well. I find long hair sensual and soft, two aspects of myself that are hard to express with computers. I'll probably lop some off soon - these split ends are killing me
Am I then to be considered a criminal? From this anonymous coward's words, it would appear so. Gee, this brave, right-minded God-fearing Christian wouldn't even share his (or her) identity with us. Why am I neither surprised nor impressed?
Love and Light,
Jeannette
Well, if they can make skin invisible to a depth of 10mm, that would really make laser hair removal a viable thing :) and I'd think that a tattoo, "floating" in the air, would be cool :)
...
But then, if they did this to the eyelids, say, in some nasty furrin country's jail, it'd play merry hell with getting to sleep