So you accepted that you have no freedom of speech and that's a tragedy. The USA is now the USSR . No freedoms. Not even being able to write words without a secret agent looking in what you say.
It'sw fu***** horrible when you thinkk about it.. yet you stay motionless and do nothing.
This is a question too hard and reveling for me to answer, let alone make sense.:}
But do I expect my every message on the Internet to not only be read by others, but used to their benefit? Yes, www.TomsHardware.com is an good example. I'd never heard of them, but they kept popping up with old UseNet post of mine as first hits on Google searches. TomsHardware has thousands of my post made to look like I had posted them to their website. They pull in newsgroups and pass them off as their own, one being a group I frequented for years.
Sound security isn't based on trusting a name. Show us the source if you expect to be trusted. I don't understand how Zimmerman still doesn't get that.
Phil Zimmerman fought back as best he could, coming out with updates to PGP, as they kept charging him with something for years until one day they dropped all charges. Now MIT where you downloaded PGP from, I don't. I've still got PGP 2.6.2 g which was released years before MIT sold out to NSA.
If you have to trust someone for me it would be Phil Zimmerman, just as I do (cough) Google.
There may be a flaw in my thinking:} but it's that or just quit the Internet, using a phone, or filling out forms.
The backdoors mentioned is old news and due to MIT. Now I don't trust cloud storage ( “Swiss cloud”).
Has there been a revelation that the NSA sends US data overseas to avoid the rules? I don't remember that revelation coming out, although I wouldn't put it past them.
While not on NSA this is what rovio.com does with the info they collect, it's in their ToS. Angry Birds being just one of their products. -note: I have them blocked at the router level and haven't read the ToS in over a year, they might of taken it out but it's what they do Their ToS also made me aware of Flurry.com (also blocked at the router level).
It was a common knowledge in the 80's that every Usenet/newsgroup went through NSA, whether it was read (flagged) depended upon key words. This included FidoNet and any other means of messaging.
There was a list that circulated with THE WORDS that would flag a message, they were few at the time and I only remember one, "nuclear". I live in the USA.
It's not a large leap to imagine text messages going through or collected via the Internet (storage) to be pulled in as well.
It taught me early that any post I make could show up on the front page of some newspaper. I also don't flame and very rarely cuss (more so in case my kids look me up). Bad grammar and all.
Amazon, with its immense resources, should be one of the cleanest hosts on the planet. They can afford, using their spare change, to staff a 24x7 abuse desk with very senior people. The budgetary impact wouldn't even be a blip. And with the right people, suitably empowered, they could keep their operation nearly free of malware, phishing, spam, and other forms of abuse. They're far better positioned to do this than many smaller operations, who couldn't possibly afford it..
And I can't block Amazon, too much comes through their cloud. Nor can I block deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com and a new one that's shown up sea09s01-in-f28.1e100.net both a caching services.
Had to laugh checking I found: unknown-68-142-253-x.yahoo.com; Whois had it, now I must block. Name Server: ns5.yahoo.com Name Server: ns1.yahoo.com Name Server: ns4.yahoo.com Name Server: ns3.yahoo.com Name Server: ns2.yahoo.com
So many sites to block only so many will my system take, up until last month my Win7 had no problem with my 144173 line, 4.3K HOSTS file. Now nothing but problems, yes the DNS client is disabled.
Looking at the subject line of the comments, this decision didn't go over well here...
I don't use XP, I like it; Only went to Win7 as Battle Field 3 required it or I'd still be using XP. I'm sure there are more like me that didn't upgrade as they didn't have a reason.
I appreciate this as well for the fact that miniXP is being treated as public domain, and will be upgraded. Linux excluded, for me the miniXP has overtaken a Win98 boot disk when it comes to Windows recovery software.
FWIW: Most of my USB pendrives will boot into a Win98 DOS window that will read and write to NTFS drives. http://bootdisk.com/
The real breakthrough was determining why one side of the formation is often longer than the other. They determined it was because there were more birds on one side. (Really? Who didn't know this?)
That is one of the better jokes...
Know why one side is longer than the other?
Why? they're interest really peaked.
Cause there more birds on that side.
Gets em every time,
(Really? Who didn't know this?)
I must run around with idiots:} na, it's the kids you ask...
Every article starts off the same way, it's only rare because nobodies seen the other million + scattered through the universe.
Even the article alludes to this "distance of over 2,500 light-years, the challenge to detect the slight wobble in the faint starlight was formidable" Mentioned in the video, "over a period of many years"
How about "A before unseen blah blah blah found in blah blah
Unusual was used in the video as was "that's a lot of stars" that are starting to pop up, while the narration again calls it rare.
If Phil Zimmerman were involved in it I'd trust the security of the phone, it's just you don't just purchase one, but for everybody you call as well. One ain't going to do you any good.
I had a girl friend who was studying psychology, her approach was to answer the questions the way the instructor wanted them answered. That may seem obvious to many, but I'd answer them the way the instructor, books, and talks all combined to explained it; she answered exactly the way the instructor said it in class. She passed as valedictorian, so she was on to something.
Right off hand I forget the name of the practice, but you make up sentences or stories using the "stuff" you need to know.
From Clear Brook I ate - F, Cl, Br, I, At : 7th group of the periodic table
My all time favorite; Some People don't F#@k - S, P, D, F : orbital paths of an electron
I've remembered those since 10th grade.
Later on in life I needed to know the steps taken in case of an emergency (Emergency Response Guides (ERG's)). Creating a sentence with the key steps was a life saver.
Some stick with you others just for that test, in a real emergency the actions are known, so automatic (as were the emergency systems) but when taking a test you needed to know them step by step. Many used this memory guide.
The thing is, most surfaces have enough structure that we don't see the fingerprints. But on a screen, you want a smooth surface, so that it doesn't distract from the picture, and that makes fingerprints very visible.
Fingerprints are more noticable to some people than to others. If you touch my monitor, I will threaten you, and then go fetch the cleaning fluid. Imagine trying to use a touch screen under those conditions... I would need to clean the screen after each click.
Both items selling points were finger prints as well.
Personally I'd expect a threat touching someones monitor, I've been around a lot graphic monitors or monitors used in that manner; I always point out something on a monitor with the back of my finger in case I get too close to the screen my nail will touch it leaving no evidence but still I'm very careful not to touch one, and haven't yet.
Thinking about it now, once touch screen become common place don't be surprised if someone just up and drags a finger across your display. Then looks at you oddly when nothing happens:}
I've no use for a touch screen for my computer, cell phone and tablets are fine, but just to move things around - a mouse is fine, graphics work, or gaming one (I) can't do with a finger. put another way my arm would fall off or be in a lot of pain after 10 mins of "finger painting" on a screen.
Will you really use a 27" monitor as a touch screen? The fingerprints alone would drive me crazy.
Oh no, fingerprints are no problem.
For $30 my Cell phone has a "military grade" plastic(mylar?) cover over it's face that's scratch resistant and completely clear.
For $15 my tablet has a translucent plastic(mylar?) protective covering that also reduces glare (by scattering light) so doesn't cover the camera lens area, and it came in a box of three.
I'm just being facetious. When you buy something new you want to protect it, and touch screens have a large market to do just that.
FWIW the translucent plastic(mylar?) is just one large collection of fingerprints, but you have to really look for them due to the way it diffuses light.
We accept the things like General and Special Relativity and the tweaks and add-on theories that came afterwards because they are the best theories we have for explaining what we see, and they haven't been dis-proven yet, at least not to the satisfaction of the scientific community.
But what if we are wrong?
Mike Rowe (from the TV series "Dangerous Jobs")" Rowe narrates "How The Universe Works" (1st series) (Discovery Channel), one of the fist episodes he starts out; "if you accept the premise of the big bang and inflation", (you'll eat anything, so the rest is just down hill) - Not those words, but the point that came across as I heard it through his inflection on the words. Whether Mike Rowe meant it or how I interpreted it, I don't know, but it was good stuff, humorous.
Until Relativity and quantum physics work together, then what we've got is as good as it gets.
If you took the time to read the article; Google: "dark matter" "vacuum energy" and see where it takes you, it's an interesting ride.
FTA: "The ideas that you hear—multiple false vacua, the landscape, connections to quantum gravity, etc.—are ones that people have speculated upon in recent years. These are mostly driven by including connections to string theory, and they present a whole host of difficulties as well as a great many interesting avenues to investigate. I will not touch upon them here, but when you hear those words, this is the basic story that they all take for granted.""
They aren't taken for granted, One question of importance is if gravity is 'shared' between his "Multiverse's"; each verse weakening the force of gravity through it's sharing to the weak force we see in our verse?
According to the time line 500,000[b] Earth will have likely been hit by a meteorite of roughly 1 km in diameter, assuming it cannot be averted.[15]
[b] This represents the time by which the event will most probably have happened. It may occur randomly at any time from the present.
[15] uses this as a reference http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html "existential risks" Which states: There is a real but very small risk that we will be wiped out by the impact of an asteroid or comet This is in turn referenced to morrison, D. et al. (1994). The Impact Hazard. In T. Gehrels (Ed.), Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
So 500,000 is just filler --- just for that answer, I hit Trax3001BBS gold ---
"existential risks" itself http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html says were all doomed and then goes into a huge list. "In this paper we shall discuss risks of the sixth category, the one marked with an X. This is the category of global, terminal risks. I shall call these existential risks. Did I mention it's a very large list?
"Existential risks"... One can have so much fun with this link, that it's easy to get carried away.
It so serious, yet it asks the question " How likely is it that superintelligence will come before advanced nanotechnology?" all the thought going on and nobody thinks of Drake equation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation, then putting a bit of thought into the results. - more than likely just the question is more sensational.
I could go on and on, "existential risks" is an incredible piece of work just asking to be ridiculed.
I came to read the replies to see if I was the only one, nothing information wise but at this moment it's (Jan 5 1:30 am PST, Sunday morning) The article claims "A buried steel pipe is mostly to blame for stopping the giant tunnel-boring machine Bertha, which has been stuck since Dec. 6 along the Seattle waterfront near South Main Street."
Oh if only there were a delete post option, you can bet it would be used here, Damn if I'm not a month off in my timing. I could blame it on a lot of things but it was just a brain fart.
In 2002, researchers for another project — the replacement of the Alaskan Way viaduct — drilled down into the ground to take water samples.
The tunnel that Bertha's digging isn't another project — the whole reason for digging the tunnel is to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. See here.
The wells were drilled in 2002 to study the ground after the 2001 Nisqually quake. But that's a related project, because the Nisqually quake is the reason why we got to thinking about a replacement for the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Am I making sense? I hope I'm making sense. At any rate, the story summary needs updating.
I came to read the replies to see if I was the only one, nothing information wise but at this moment it's (Jan 5 1:30 am PST, Sunday morning) The article claims "A buried steel pipe is mostly to blame for stopping the giant tunnel-boring machine Bertha, which has been stuck since Dec. 6 along the Seattle waterfront near South Main Street."
At first I thought the machine Bertha has sat for a year, looked at the date of the article January 3, 2014 at 1:30 PM...figured If nobody works till Monday, (taking the weekends off), there are better ways to mention it, if a part is needed and takes a day or two,,,, well you see the point.
But lower in the article: "then on Friday night, Dec. 6, the cutting face rotated without catching soil."
The article most certainly needs a rewrite, and I figure your correct all the work put into this piece and all.
What’s blocking Bertha: a long steel pipe
Posted by Mike Lindblom (author of referenced article)
"As I was writing up this description, I discovered I'm not the first person to write an obfuscated C sparkline utility! Vicent Martí created [this one](https://gist.github.com/vmg/1368661) years (!) ago. (My implementation is completely independent.)" http://ioccc.org/2013/dlowe/hint.text
I fully believe this was a coincidence, but one can never say they hadn't seen it or similar before as it's would appear within their circle of interest.
But to complete this project then find an older version must be deflating in some manner.
It's an amazing book it grabbed me like a Stargate brain sucker. Just non stop action and it kept going and going - very good read till just over half way, then book takes care of business, who these people were what we are to them, all the filler of the first half is poured on the second Everybody I've loaned the book to agrees as well, yet all of us have finished it just in case a bit of the first makes a comeback.
I'm serious if the entire book kept up what he had at the start it would of been unblevable.
the "Heechee" Saga by Frederik Pohl was another good read, the first of the series I got fer free from the library (my pushers at the time) the book was being tossed out by the library so I picked it up still in it's sleve and showed many years behing it. I still think about the people in the ships that have returned in about two weeks with a great find "becoming one of them", or just as easly still be watching the wall, waiting to see the half way mark. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_(novel)
Lord of the rings, and the Conan series are a few of the many that have left a mark on me
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So you accepted that you have no freedom of speech and that's a tragedy. .
The USA is now the USSR . No freedoms. Not even being able to write words without
a secret agent looking in what you say
It'sw fu***** horrible when you thinkk about it .. yet you stay motionless and do nothing .
This is a question too hard and reveling for me to answer, let alone make sense. :}
But do I expect my every message on the Internet to not only be read by others, but used to their benefit? Yes, www.TomsHardware.com is an good example. I'd never heard of them, but they kept popping up with old UseNet post of mine as first hits on Google searches. TomsHardware has thousands of my post made to look like I had posted them to their website. They pull in newsgroups and pass them off as their own, one being a group I frequented for years.
Sound security isn't based on trusting a name. Show us the source if you expect to be trusted. I don't understand how Zimmerman still doesn't get that.
Phil Zimmerman fought back as best he could, coming out with updates to PGP, as they kept charging him with something for years until one day they dropped all charges. Now MIT where you downloaded PGP from, I don't. I've still got PGP 2.6.2 g which was released years before MIT sold out to NSA.
If you have to trust someone for me it would be Phil Zimmerman, just as I do (cough) Google.
There may be a flaw in my thinking :} but it's that or just quit the Internet, using a phone, or filling out forms.
The backdoors mentioned is old news and due to MIT. Now I don't trust cloud storage ( “Swiss cloud”).
Has there been a revelation that the NSA sends US data overseas to avoid the rules? I don't remember that revelation coming out, although I wouldn't put it past them.
While not on NSA this is what rovio.com does with the info they collect, it's in their ToS. Angry Birds being just one of their products. -note: I have them blocked at the router level and haven't read the ToS in over a year, they might of taken it out but it's what they do Their ToS also made me aware of Flurry.com (also blocked at the router level).
It was a common knowledge in the 80's that every Usenet/newsgroup went through NSA, whether it was read (flagged) depended upon key words. This included FidoNet and any other means of messaging.
There was a list that circulated with THE WORDS that would flag a message, they were few at the time and I only remember one, "nuclear". I live in the USA.
It's not a large leap to imagine text messages going through or collected via the Internet (storage) to be pulled in as well.
It taught me early that any post I make could show up on the front page of some newspaper. I also don't flame and very rarely cuss (more so in case my kids look me up). Bad grammar and all.
Amazon, with its immense resources, should be one of the cleanest hosts on .
the planet. They can afford, using their spare change, to staff a 24x7 abuse desk
with very senior people. The budgetary impact wouldn't even be a blip. And with
the right people, suitably empowered, they could keep their operation nearly free of
malware, phishing, spam, and other forms of abuse. They're far better positioned
to do this than many smaller operations, who couldn't possibly afford it.
And I can't block Amazon, too much comes through their cloud.
Nor can I block deploy.static.akamaitechnologies.com and a new one that's shown up sea09s01-in-f28.1e100.net both a caching services.
Had to laugh checking I found: unknown-68-142-253-x.yahoo.com; Whois had it, now I must block.
Name Server: ns5.yahoo.com
Name Server: ns1.yahoo.com
Name Server: ns4.yahoo.com
Name Server: ns3.yahoo.com
Name Server: ns2.yahoo.com
So many sites to block only so many will my system take, up until last month my Win7 had no problem with my 144173 line, 4.3K HOSTS file.
Now nothing but problems, yes the DNS client is disabled.
Looking at the subject line of the comments, this decision didn't go over well here...
I don't use XP, I like it; Only went to Win7 as Battle Field 3 required it or I'd still be using XP.
I'm sure there are more like me that didn't upgrade as they didn't have a reason.
I appreciate this as well for the fact that miniXP is being treated as public domain, and will be upgraded.
Linux excluded, for me the miniXP has overtaken a Win98 boot disk when it comes to Windows recovery software.
FWIW: Most of my USB pendrives will boot into a Win98 DOS window that will read and write to NTFS drives.
http://bootdisk.com/
The real breakthrough was determining why one side of the formation is often longer than the other. They determined it was because there were more birds on one side. (Really? Who didn't know this?)
That is one of the better jokes...
Know why one side is longer than the other?
Why? they're interest really peaked.
Cause there more birds on that side.
Gets em every time,
(Really? Who didn't know this?)
I must run around with idiots :} na, it's the kids you ask...
I don't think they know what that word means.
Every article starts off the same way, it's only rare because nobodies seen the other million + scattered through the universe.
Even the article alludes to this "distance of over 2,500 light-years, the challenge to detect the slight wobble in the faint starlight was formidable"
Mentioned in the video, "over a period of many years"
How about "A before unseen blah blah blah found in blah blah
Unusual was used in the video as was "that's a lot of stars" that are starting to pop up, while the narration again calls it rare.
If Phil Zimmerman were involved in it I'd trust the security of the phone, it's just you don't just purchase one, but for everybody you call as well. One ain't going to do you any good.
I had a girl friend who was studying psychology, her approach was to answer the questions the way the instructor wanted them answered. That may seem obvious to many, but I'd answer them the way the instructor, books, and talks all combined to explained it; she answered exactly the way the instructor said it in class. She passed as valedictorian, so she was on to something.
PROVIGIL (modafinil)....
Right off hand I forget the name of the practice, but you make up sentences or stories using the "stuff" you need to know.
From Clear Brook I ate - F, Cl, Br, I, At : 7th group of the periodic table
My all time favorite; Some People don't F#@k - S, P, D, F : orbital paths of an electron
I've remembered those since 10th grade.
Later on in life I needed to know the steps taken in case of an emergency (Emergency Response Guides (ERG's)). Creating a sentence with the key steps was a life saver.
Some stick with you others just for that test, in a real emergency the actions are known, so automatic (as were the emergency systems) but when taking a test you needed to know them step by step. Many used this memory guide.
The thing is, most surfaces have enough structure that we don't see the fingerprints. But on a screen, you want a smooth surface, so that it doesn't distract from the picture, and that makes fingerprints very visible.
Fingerprints are more noticable to some people than to others. If you touch my monitor, I will threaten you, and then go fetch the cleaning fluid. Imagine trying to use a touch screen under those conditions... I would need to clean the screen after each click.
Both items selling points were finger prints as well.
Personally I'd expect a threat touching someones monitor, I've been around a lot graphic monitors or monitors used in that manner; I always point out something on a monitor with the back of my finger in case I get too close to the screen my nail will touch it leaving no evidence but still I'm very careful not to touch one, and haven't yet.
Thinking about it now, once touch screen become common place don't be surprised if someone just up and drags a finger across your display. Then looks at you oddly when nothing happens :}
I've no use for a touch screen for my computer, cell phone and tablets are fine, but just to move things around - a mouse is fine, graphics work, or gaming one (I) can't do with a finger. put another way my arm would fall off or be in a lot of pain after 10 mins of "finger painting" on a screen.
Will you really use a 27" monitor as a touch screen? The fingerprints alone would drive me crazy.
Oh no, fingerprints are no problem.
For $30 my Cell phone has a "military grade" plastic(mylar?) cover over it's face that's scratch resistant and completely clear.
For $15 my tablet has a translucent plastic(mylar?) protective covering that also reduces glare (by scattering light) so doesn't cover the camera lens area, and it came in a box of three.
I'm just being facetious. When you buy something new you want to protect it, and touch screens have a large market to do just that.
FWIW the translucent plastic(mylar?) is just one large collection of fingerprints, but you have to really look for them due to the way it diffuses light.
and rubbers weren't invented.
they tied a sock around their cock,
and babies were prevented.
If it was good enough for my great, great, great, great, great, great, great, granddad, it's good enough for me.
We accept the things like General and Special Relativity and the tweaks and add-on theories that came afterwards because they are the best theories we have for explaining what we see, and they haven't been dis-proven yet, at least not to the satisfaction of the scientific community.
But what if we are wrong?
Mike Rowe (from the TV series "Dangerous Jobs")" Rowe narrates "How The Universe Works" (1st series) (Discovery Channel), one of the fist episodes he starts out; "if you accept the premise of the big bang and inflation", (you'll eat anything, so the rest is just down hill) - Not those words, but the point that came across as I heard it through his inflection on the words. Whether Mike Rowe meant it or how I interpreted it, I don't know, but it was good stuff, humorous.
Until Relativity and quantum physics work together, then what we've got is as good as it gets.
If you took the time to read the article; Google: "dark matter" "vacuum energy"
and see where it takes you, it's an interesting ride.
FTA: "The ideas that you hear—multiple false vacua, the landscape, connections to quantum gravity, etc.—are ones that people have speculated upon in recent years. These are mostly driven by including connections to string theory, and they present a whole host of difficulties as well as a great many interesting avenues to investigate. I will not touch upon them here, but when you hear those words, this is the basic story that they all take for granted.""
They aren't taken for granted, One question of importance is if gravity is 'shared' between his "Multiverse's"; each verse weakening the force of gravity through it's sharing to the weak force we see in our verse?
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I16_8l0yS-g
Well it's official, between /. and utube my HOSTS file is no longer effective. Not used to seeing ads, now they are everywhere. (Windows 7).
According to the time line
500,000[b] Earth will have likely been hit by a meteorite of roughly 1 km in diameter, assuming it cannot be averted.[15]
[b] This represents the time by which the event will most probably have happened. It may occur randomly at any time from the present.
[15] uses this as a reference http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html "existential risks"
Which states: There is a real but very small risk that we will be wiped out by the impact of an asteroid or comet
This is in turn referenced to morrison, D. et al. (1994). The Impact Hazard. In T. Gehrels (Ed.), Hazards Due to Comets and Asteroids. Tucson: The University of Arizona Press.
So 500,000 is just filler
--- just for that answer, I hit Trax3001BBS gold ---
"existential risks" itself http://www.nickbostrom.com/existential/risks.html says were all doomed and then goes into a huge list. "In this paper we shall discuss risks of the sixth category, the one marked with an X. This is the category of global, terminal risks. I shall call these existential risks. Did I mention it's a very large list?
"Existential risks"... One can have so much fun with this link, that it's easy to get carried away.
It so serious, yet it asks the question " How likely is it that superintelligence will come before advanced nanotechnology?" all the thought going on and nobody thinks of Drake equation http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Drake_equation, then putting a bit of thought into the results. - more than likely just the question is more sensational.
I could go on and on, "existential risks" is an incredible piece of work just asking to be ridiculed.
I came to read the replies to see if I was the only one, nothing information wise but at this moment it's (Jan 5 1:30 am PST, Sunday morning)
The article claims
"A buried steel pipe is mostly to blame for stopping the giant tunnel-boring machine Bertha, which has been stuck since Dec. 6 along the Seattle waterfront near South Main Street."
Oh if only there were a delete post option, you can bet it would be used here, Damn if I'm not a month off in my timing. I could blame it on a lot of things
but it was just a brain fart.
My apologies
The tunnel that Bertha's digging isn't another project — the whole reason for digging the tunnel is to replace the Alaskan Way Viaduct. See here.
The wells were drilled in 2002 to study the ground after the 2001 Nisqually quake. But that's a related project, because the Nisqually quake is the reason why we got to thinking about a replacement for the Alaskan Way Viaduct.
Am I making sense? I hope I'm making sense. At any rate, the story summary needs updating.
I came to read the replies to see if I was the only one, nothing information wise but at this moment it's (Jan 5 1:30 am PST, Sunday morning)
The article claims
"A buried steel pipe is mostly to blame for stopping the giant tunnel-boring machine Bertha, which has been stuck since Dec. 6 along the Seattle waterfront near South Main Street."
At first I thought the machine Bertha has sat for a year, looked at the date of the article January 3, 2014 at 1:30 PM...figured If nobody works till Monday, (taking the weekends off), there are better ways to mention it, if a part is needed and takes a day or two,,,, well you see the point.
But lower in the article:
"then on Friday night, Dec. 6, the cutting face rotated without catching soil."
The article most certainly needs a rewrite, and I figure your correct all the work put into this piece and all.
What’s blocking Bertha: a long steel pipe
Posted by Mike Lindblom (author of referenced article)
"As I was writing up this description, I discovered I'm not the first person to write an obfuscated C sparkline utility! Vicent Martí created
[this one](https://gist.github.com/vmg/1368661) years (!) ago. (My implementation is completely independent.)" http://ioccc.org/2013/dlowe/hint.text
I fully believe this was a coincidence, but one can never say they hadn't seen it or similar before as it's would appear within their circle of interest.
But to complete this project then find an older version must be deflating in some manner.
ARMOR by John Steakley but only half way through.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armor_(novel)
It's an amazing book it grabbed me like a Stargate brain sucker.
Just non stop action and it kept going and going - very good read till just over half
way, then book takes care of business, who these people were what we are
to them, all the filler of the first half is poured on the second Everybody I've
loaned the book to agrees as well, yet all of us have finished it just in case a bit of the
first makes a comeback.
I'm serious if the entire book kept up what he had at the start it would of been unblevable.
the "Heechee" Saga by Frederik Pohl was another good read, the first of the series I got fer free
from the library (my pushers at the time) the book was being tossed out by the library so I picked it up
still in it's sleve and showed many years behing it. I still think about the people in the ships that have returned in
about two weeks with a great find "becoming one of them", or just as easly still be watching the wall, waiting to
see the half way mark.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gateway_(novel)
Lord of the rings, and the Conan series are a few of the many that have left a mark on me
Why are you afraid of Hubbard?
Well the book series "The Invaders Plan" would be a start.
. . . by a team of tricyclists . . . !
My first thought :}
Took a lot out of her just getting there, (a direct quote).