Actually, Scientology wanted Sonny [Bono] to want the term of copyright protection to last forever. Otherwise Hubbard's stuff would eventually leak out into public domain. (Some already has due to slip-ups.)
Although there were rumours that Sonny wanted out shortly before he went eXtreme tree-skiing.
Hey, what about Battlestar Galactica? (And before someone says something, it was run as a movie outside US. Slight differences from the pilot episode.)
Great. Then I'll have to block all email from.luna as well as.cn!:^)
Actually, I hope they do it. While the Mars missions are interesting, they're more of the old Apollo type thinking of "do it and die": Get on TV, get great ratings, have a few reruns, forget about it.
"The brains are out there"
"Trust no one, eat everyone"
"He's hiding something, let's open up his head."
"If you tell anyone this, you're dead men." "Yeah... So?"
"Looks like the government is covering up the existance of zombies." "Ummm... Is that bad?"
And they could always do a cross-over with Buffy. (Looks down at stake in his heart, "Hey! That was a new suit!")
As that proponent of Dead Rights, Reg Shoe (deceased), says "Dead yes. Gone no!"
Spam is perfectly valid email. (Except when the headers are forged.) Having an open mail relay is perfectly valid. That doesn't mean that they're acceptable on today's Internet.
Eh, it's like a bird dropping on a waxed car, no biggy.
I finally checked out the icon beside each post, and the ability to declare other posters "Friend/Neutral/Foe" is weirding me out.
Is this like Pyroto Mountain, or what?
I like your idea of having the light switch delay turning on until it is at 0v. Very interesting... A solid state relay and a voltage detector would be needed.
An 8 pin DIP and a 15A+ Triac. (If there isn't an existing chip for it, volume sales would make it worthwhile to make one.) Lightbulbs always blow when you switch them on, never during usage.
There have been recifier gimicks for lamp sockets, but I doubt those do very much.
I put this idea in the public domain (not that I can copyright ideas), and all that I (hopefully) ask for is a bunch of these (for site testing) so that I don't have to keep replacing those damned bulbs!
How many hardware engineers does it take to not change a lightbulb?
If Mr. Edison had thought smarter he wouldn't sweat as much. --Nicola Tesla
Speaking of Mr. Edison, it always bugs me that he gets credit for inventing the incandescent light bulb. Lots of people knew how to do that -- but it used this really expensive stuff called tungsten. What Edison invented was a cheap lightbulb using string impregnated with carbon dust.
Of course the invention of inexpensive methods of refining tungsten made that kludge pretty moot.
Now if only all the lightbulbs in my apartment wouldn't blow at the same time regardless of usage. (Light switches that only turned on at zero-crossing points of the AC cycle would probably be very good for bulbs and any other equipment.)
I still think that a "Lava Tank" overclocked CPU cooler would be nifty, but I haven't found any lava recipes yet that wouldn't harm the CPU board.
If only we could clock motherboards up into the frequency of visible light. Then we could use Rack Lighting for illumination from the stray "RF". (Does it worry anyone else that we're starting to clock motherboards up into microwave frequencies?)
Heh, I don't really care. Okay, maybe a tidge when someone mods up a post (hitting the wall) and then someone just has to mod it down. Or worse, when someone objects to my unmodded post being at 2.
I frequently change sigs, and I was stuck for something that day.
Two "pump'n'dump" stock spammers were shot and killed in New York (I think) a year or so ago. No one on NANAE has admitted to it, and it was probably some people who took a bath on their stock fraud.
Just remember what happened to Keith Henson when $cientology took some "Tom Cruise missle" remarks out of context in court.
Of course, except in the worst cases, I'd settle for a permanent tattoo of "Spammer" on their foreheads.
I noticed when it tried to load Word, 'cause word.exe hit the firewall and stuck. I gritted my teeth and let it go ahead, but said HELL NO! to giving it automatic permission.
What a waste loading Word for an rtf document! Wordpad would work perfectly well. I'll have to see if I can't.. convince IE not to load Word.
A lot of that is actually from North America via open proxy servers. (Since all the schools in South Korea have identical misinstallations, it's not hard to find an open proxy.)
This is not to say that I don't get a lot of native Korean spam. (I wonder what they're trying to sell me??)
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Although there were rumours that Sonny wanted out shortly before he went eXtreme tree-skiing.
Hey, what about Battlestar Galactica? (And before someone says something, it was run as a movie outside US. Slight differences from the pilot episode.)
Actually, I hope they do it. While the Mars missions are interesting, they're more of the old Apollo type thinking of "do it and die": Get on TV, get great ratings, have a few reruns, forget about it.
Who would have figured that Elvis was behind it from the beginning?
"Trust no one, eat everyone"
"He's hiding something, let's open up his head."
"If you tell anyone this, you're dead men." "Yeah... So?"
"Looks like the government is covering up the existance of zombies." "Ummm... Is that bad?"
And they could always do a cross-over with Buffy. (Looks down at stake in his heart, "Hey! That was a new suit!")
As that proponent of Dead Rights, Reg Shoe (deceased), says "Dead yes. Gone no!"
I think I'd rather see them on Buffy.
It could be a good lead-in to their next show: The Undead Lone Gunmen.
And don't forget that the whole show has been appearing posthumously for the last several seasions.
If that's the case, then there'll have to be appearences by butt-head aliens who want our women.
Thanks a lot! Next you'll be telling me that Bambi's mother dies or something!
The two Quebec City bridge collapses would have been good. Hundreds of workmen were killed.
And you have to put a damned good effort into your tests. Can anyone say Hubble mirror?
It was a good article, but it would have been better if they knew what heterodyne actually is.
Spam is perfectly valid email. (Except when the headers are forged.) Having an open mail relay is perfectly valid. That doesn't mean that they're acceptable on today's Internet.
Eh, it's like a bird dropping on a waxed car, no biggy. I finally checked out the icon beside each post, and the ability to declare other posters "Friend/Neutral/Foe" is weirding me out. Is this like Pyroto Mountain, or what?
An 8 pin DIP and a 15A+ Triac. (If there isn't an existing chip for it, volume sales would make it worthwhile to make one.) Lightbulbs always blow when you switch them on, never during usage.
There have been recifier gimicks for lamp sockets, but I doubt those do very much.
I put this idea in the public domain (not that I can copyright ideas), and all that I (hopefully) ask for is a bunch of these (for site testing) so that I don't have to keep replacing those damned bulbs!
How many hardware engineers does it take to not change a lightbulb?
Speaking of Mr. Edison, it always bugs me that he gets credit for inventing the incandescent light bulb. Lots of people knew how to do that -- but it used this really expensive stuff called tungsten. What Edison invented was a cheap lightbulb using string impregnated with carbon dust.
Of course the invention of inexpensive methods of refining tungsten made that kludge pretty moot.
Now if only all the lightbulbs in my apartment wouldn't blow at the same time regardless of usage. (Light switches that only turned on at zero-crossing points of the AC cycle would probably be very good for bulbs and any other equipment.)
If only we could clock motherboards up into the frequency of visible light. Then we could use Rack Lighting for illumination from the stray "RF". (Does it worry anyone else that we're starting to clock motherboards up into microwave frequencies?)
No, just wrong. They're running Linux.
I frequently change sigs, and I was stuck for something that day.
Just remember what happened to Keith Henson when $cientology took some "Tom Cruise missle" remarks out of context in court.
Of course, except in the worst cases, I'd settle for a permanent tattoo of "Spammer" on their foreheads.
Ah maan! You published my email address on Slashdot. Now I'm going to get so much spam! :^)
I wonder if any spammers do scrape Slashdot for address? Time to get another throw-away and give it a try.
It's not that bad. I'm told that even in New York if your job requires it, you can get a concealed carry permit. :^)
What a waste loading Word for an rtf document! Wordpad would work perfectly well. I'll have to see if I can't .. convince IE not to load Word.
This is not to say that I don't get a lot of native Korean spam. (I wonder what they're trying to sell me??)