Who cares about geomagnetic north with the advent of GPS?
Those without electricity to run GPS devices.
Say that you are in a non-urban environment somewhere, either a Boyscout on a trip in the Southwest U.S., a U.S. serviceman in the mountains of Afghanistan, or a deep-sea fisherman off the coast of New England. If you're lucky, you have a GPS device that tells you exactly where you are and what route you should take to get to where you're going. It's certainly safer that way, idn't?
Suppose that your batteries run down, or your generator breaks down, or the GPS device you're using doesn't have a hand crank. I bet you'd really like to know the difference between true north and magnetic north right about then.
Suppose the U.S. goes to war in the near future with a country who is not vastly overwhelmed by our military might. If I was in charge of a war effort in such a country, (China for example, which may happen depending on how we handle the 'War on Terrorism'), I would make a point of using missiles to eliminate the network of GPS sattellites in order to confuse and confound my enemies.
U.S. soldiers, pilots, and ship captains would *have* to care about Magnetic vs. True north at that point. I'm almost certain that standard field gear for all U.S. servicemen still includes a magnetic compass. Any of the Military readers care to confirm or correct me?
Pong, The Movie
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First they decided to get rid of Windows in the government and are moving to OSS for all government IT installations if I remember correctly. Now they're promoting hard encryption for all their citezens. This seems like a government that truly cares about the rights of its citzens, especially where privacy and technology are concerned.
What is the catch? What makes Germany less or more desireable for people who are concerned about their rights as they relate to technology, privacy, or otherwise?
I know there are some english speaking Germans reading/. Enlighten us, please...
I have to say that this is a way of trying to shut out non-commercial sites from the web. For example, my site is a privately run anime fansite with nothing for sale and no adds. Despite this, it gets flagged for not having a compliant privacy policy.
Now, I suppose that I could make a privacy policy for my site, but why should I have to bother when I'm obviously not in any kind of business, let alone selling personal information?
The web should be for *everyone*, not just businesses with large advertising budgets. Shutting out sites who don't have privacy policies posted is FUD tactics against little guys, plain and simple.
There are ways to make quicktime videos without purchasing Quicktime pro, but most of them don't work very well, or use older versions of the quicktime mpeg4 based/inspired codec.
Can the darwin streamer be used to stream any other kind of media?
I saw the special about Harrison and his clock just a few days after I read 'The Theif of Time', arguably one of Pratchett's better books of the aging Discworld series. Not surprisingly, the non-plot themes are somewhat similar... the quest for the perfect material with which to build clock springs.
Reading about this makes me want to read it again.
If it's someone you're upclose and personal to, you don't even have to stop role-playing to enjoy it. In fact, if you're role-playing in a large group, you might even get some good creative criticism on your technique or even... if you're the adventurous sort... outside help.
"The Matrix" was essentially live-action anime, only there wasn't actually an animated version first.
The Waschoszki (sp?) Bros. original storyboard for the Matrix was very close to being a manga, however. You get to see bits and pieces of it during the 'making-of' videos on the Matrix DVD. These guys drew a comic and then fit a movie around it.
Macrovision is a feature on just about every TV-out card you can buy today. This means that you cannot do any of the following without macrovision interference:
- Tape a video game. Sure, who would do this without being a complete gamer luzer. I can think of a few reasons to tape video game play. The one that comes to mind most readily are the occasional tournaments that happen on the MMORPG's and Shooters. Wouldn't you like to have a permanent record if you were the victor or a high ranker in such a tournament?
- Produce your own video to tape. You produce an original video, but you can't tape it without interference patterns or light noise. This doesn't even aid the hollywood studios, other than cutting potential amature video producers out of the loop. Mostly it just aids producers of high-end video hardware which gives the user control on the kind of output and copyprotection he wants on his stuff.
- Reproduce non-copyrighted or grey-area video. Anime fansubs are very rapidly becoming an all-online phenominon. Non-english anime videos are recorded from TV or other sources, subtitled, and then distributed for free in areas where that video is not otherwise available. Suppose you wanted to share such a video with someone who doesn't have a computer and can't play back Divx files? Unless you have a way to bypass macrovision, you're SOL.
- Play DVD's from your computer's DVD player on your TV. If you had a perfectly good Computer DVD setup and TV out device, why should you bother buying a separate standalone DVD player? Ease and convenience, sure, but many who don't care or are trying to save money, this is an extra expense.
Until I can get a video-out card that doesn't have macrovision enabled, I'm sticking with my pre-macrovision Matrox PCI card for TV out purposes.
I'm not a military guy or someone who knows a lot about weapons, but doesn't the amount of damage a round does have a lot more to do with how it's constructed rather than how much energy it carries?
Case in point: Say a bullet was designed with a sharp point for armor-piercing purposes or 'splintering' points for maximum internal damage. Would the fact that it was made from DU rather than lead dramatically alter how well it did its job? It seems to me that DU rounds, being more massive than similiar-sized lead rounds, would require more propellant to acheive the same velocity so it could reap any rewards that would come from higher kinetic energy. It seems like common sense that it would be cheaper and more effective to use more less expensive lead bullets to do the same job.
Please let me know if DU rounds are just a sales gimmick on the part of arms manufacturers or if they really do provide a better $$$ to kill ratio.
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Hmmm.... Nope. I don't see anything at all wrong with the speech recognition software.
Especially if they assess tax on a per-byte or a per-intruction rate.
WinXP has many, many millions of lines of code, which Microsoft and its pirates reproduce endlessly. If Each of those lines of code had a $5 tax on it, Microsoft would be forced to start streamlining their code, using less bloaty software production methods... using more tight, sleek assembly code instead of fat, saggy Visual Basic.
Every line of code will have to be evaluted on a cost to benifit ratio!
This has the added benifit of speeding up applications and systems and elminating unecessary
The same holds true for other software projects. Something sleek and sexy like Winamp 2.x would be more cost efficient than the Winamp 3.x line, which is getting pretty bloaty. Of course, I don't see how they could tax winamp since it's a 'free' project. n% of $0 is still $0.
By this same token, it suddenly becomes more cost efficient for Microsoft to give all its software away for free and *only* charge for services.
I have been purchasing and playing Blizzard games for about four years. I have enjoyed Blizzard titles like 'Diablo', 'Diablo II', 'Starcraft' and 'Starcraft: Broodwar'. I have spent hard-earned money on Blizzard titles and have spent countless hours playing them.
That said, I do not plan to purchase or play any more Blizzard titles. Why? Blizzard games has threatened legal action under the DMCA against the Bnetd project (http://www.bnetd.org/), an open source multiplayer system for games that use Blizzard's 'Battle Net' multiplayer system.
In press releases and news articles, Blizzard has indicated that it feels that because Bnetd will not and cannot check users for proper licensing that it contributes to piracy of Blizzard games.
Unfortunately, Bnetd is a small project run by volunteers who have no ability to hire expensive lawyers to defend themselves against Blizzard's claims, regardless of their merit. Blizzard software is effectively using their financial resources to silence and eliminate a possible competitor.
This practice is despicable. I don't associate with individuals who believe that this is an acceptable practice and I will not support a company who does so either. Further, I will encourage everyone I know to stop supporting your company and to stop buying Blizzard games because of this reprehensible act. In effect, your 'anti-piracy' concerns have lost you a paying customer. I hope that the irony of this is not lost on money-conscious salespeople or executives.
Hopefully, Blizzard games will realize that it is driving away in dependant developers, gamers, and other customers with this act and will with withdraw its legal threats against the Bnetd project. Hopefully, it will even issue a formal apology to the members of the Bnetd project. Until then, what I stated above remains in effect. You have lost me and everyone else I speak to on the matter as paying customers.
Information wants to be Anthropomorphized...
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Humans have a tendancy to cast biological, and even human, behaviors on anything that is outside their ken.
Case in point. When I was helping my mother restore her computer after she was infected with Code Red, she was infuriated at the worm. While she is a computer professional, she is not a coder and has no understanding of... say... how machine code executes a loop or a goto. She talked about Code Red as if it really was a living thing despite the fact that she knew better. One of the things she said that stuck in my head was 'Why would it do that to me?'
Man, I loved TRON so much when I was a kid. Besides seeing the movie and renting the VHS cassette over and over again, I pumped dozens of dollars into TRON and DISCS of TRON game machines.
When I first heard that TRON was going to get a SE DVD I was ecstatic. Then I remembered who produced TRON. I remembered the fight in congress to introduce the SSSCA, which has been largely fueled by that same company.
So, thank you, Disney, for giving me a wonderful experience in my youth. Thanks, but no thanks, for the TRON SE DVD. I won't spend my money to help a company that wants to surgically remove my rights to do what I want to with my computer or any media I buy.
If you have any feeling at all about the SSSCA don't spend your money on the TRON SE DVD.
Not a lot of places sell slate blackboards or greenboards any more simply because they last decades and whiteboards are significantly cheaper to produce. That said, a large blackboard costs about 200 dollars. $400 for blackboard plus transmission hardware is really not that bad.
Music industry heads have long relied on the fact that money can buy credibility, especially from the two classes of people they're most concerened with... government regulators and performing artists. Before the music-sharing era, these were the only ones they *had* to be credible for.
What RIAA heads like this guy and Hillary Rosen are demonstrating, however, is their complete and total lack of intelligence, wisdom, and understanding of the technology they're dealing with. MPAA's going through the same thing. DeCSS was supposed to be uncrackable, and I beleive in my heart that Jack Valenti and his buddies bought that hook line and sinker. When Jon J. cracked it, it was not just a kick in the movie industry's legal nuts, but a phenominal blow to their credibility. Record industry is going through the same thing right now with CD copy protection. Nothing they can do will prvent the ripping and encoding of CD's, even if MP3 traders have to revert to using non-digital capture methods. (Headphone to Audio-in port, anyone?) Despite this *obvious* problem with audio copy-protection, the music studios are trudging forward with poorly thought out, poorly tested, unworkable, and uneeded copy protection controls. This makes them look like idiots to the public.
Articles like this are both promoting and refelcting the popular opinion that not only is the RIAA a bunch of idiotic cartoon bad guys, but that they *deserve* to be taken advantage of.
The RIAA's worst enemy is not P2P, MP3, or even the people who trade audio files. The RIAA's worst enemy is itself.
An SMTP relay can also be configured to use either password, email address or IP-based verification. There's no reason for him to be running an open server unless his 'friends' change email addresses regularly and cannot remember a password.
Go to a public library. Logon to the internet terminal found in most public libraries. Create a Hotmail or Yahoo Mail account. Use that account to E-Mail the FSF with your company's name, the project's name, and as many details about the project as you can without personally identifying yourself.
Then, later, you can sleep like a baby, knowing you did the right thing.
Emissions of light (at wavelengths of 595 to 645 nanometers) likely arise from a tenuous atmosphere of oxygen. These glows would appear red to the eye and are consequently colored red in the movie.
Io is also brutally hot, has lots of tectonic activity, and hot and cold running Sulphur Volcanoes.
Still, there is this little tidbit from Solarviews:
The temperature on Io's surface is about -143 C (-230 F); however, a large hot spot associated with a volcanic feature measured about 17 C (60 F). Scientists believe the hot spot may be a lava lake, although the temperature indicates the surface is not molten. This feature is reminiscent of lava lakes on Earth.
My imagination can't help but be stirred by the idea of an open air Ionian resort hotel with swimming pools heated by molten Sulphur and with a dramatic view of Jupiter in the background.
*sigh*... The problems with this is that IO apparently has very little radiation shielding in comparison to earth. Sure you could land there... maybe even walk around, but if you took off your radiation shielding or went outside the sheilded dome, you'd get a fatal tan almost instantly, I think.
Also, while there is an atmospehre, IO is not much more massive than the Earth's moon. Even if it does have oxygen, you'd have to compress and mix it with something other than vaporized sulphur before humans could breath it.
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Who cares about geomagnetic north with the advent of GPS?
Those without electricity to run GPS devices.
Say that you are in a non-urban environment somewhere, either a Boyscout on a trip in the Southwest U.S., a U.S. serviceman in the mountains of Afghanistan, or a deep-sea fisherman off the coast of New England. If you're lucky, you have a GPS device that tells you exactly where you are and what route you should take to get to where you're going. It's certainly safer that way, idn't?
Suppose that your batteries run down, or your generator breaks down, or the GPS device you're using doesn't have a hand crank. I bet you'd really like to know the difference between true north and magnetic north right about then.
Suppose the U.S. goes to war in the near future with a country who is not vastly overwhelmed by our military might. If I was in charge of a war effort in such a country, (China for example, which may happen depending on how we handle the 'War on Terrorism'), I would make a point of using missiles to eliminate the network of GPS sattellites in order to confuse and confound my enemies.
U.S. soldiers, pilots, and ship captains would *have* to care about Magnetic vs. True north at that point. I'm almost certain that standard field gear for all U.S. servicemen still includes a magnetic compass. Any of the Military readers care to confirm or correct me?
http://www.youngprimitive.cz/pong.html
Some people just have way the fuck too much time on their hands.
I was curious, so I installed XP a little while back. Ran just fine with two different versions of VNC
First they decided to get rid of Windows in the government and are moving to OSS for all government IT installations if I remember correctly. Now they're promoting hard encryption for all their citezens. This seems like a government that truly cares about the rights of its citzens, especially where privacy and technology are concerned.
/. Enlighten us, please...
What is the catch? What makes Germany less or more desireable for people who are concerned about their rights as they relate to technology, privacy, or otherwise?
I know there are some english speaking Germans reading
I have to say that this is a way of trying to shut out non-commercial sites from the web. For example, my site is a privately run anime fansite with nothing for sale and no adds. Despite this, it gets flagged for not having a compliant privacy policy.
Now, I suppose that I could make a privacy policy for my site, but why should I have to bother when I'm obviously not in any kind of business, let alone selling personal information?
The web should be for *everyone*, not just businesses with large advertising budgets. Shutting out sites who don't have privacy policies posted is FUD tactics against little guys, plain and simple.
These are either the coolest lawyers in the world or most clueless.
There are ways to make quicktime videos without purchasing Quicktime pro, but most of them don't work very well, or use older versions of the quicktime mpeg4 based/inspired codec.
Can the darwin streamer be used to stream any other kind of media?
Tarkin support? Tarkin? Tarkin, anyone?
I saw the special about Harrison and his clock just a few days after I read 'The Theif of Time', arguably one of Pratchett's better books of the aging Discworld series. Not surprisingly, the non-plot themes are somewhat similar... the quest for the perfect material with which to build clock springs.
Reading about this makes me want to read it again.
It depends on who you're RPG'ing with.
If it's someone you're upclose and personal to, you don't even have to stop role-playing to enjoy it. In fact, if you're role-playing in a large group, you might even get some good creative criticism on your technique or even... if you're the adventurous sort... outside help.
"The Matrix" was essentially live-action anime, only there wasn't actually an animated version first.
The Waschoszki (sp?) Bros. original storyboard for the Matrix was very close to being a manga, however. You get to see bits and pieces of it during the 'making-of' videos on the Matrix DVD. These guys drew a comic and then fit a movie around it.
From the video specs:
* Integrated Macro Vision 7.01
Macrovision is a feature on just about every TV-out card you can buy today. This means that you cannot do any of the following without macrovision interference:
- Tape a video game. Sure, who would do this without being a complete gamer luzer. I can think of a few reasons to tape video game play. The one that comes to mind most readily are the occasional tournaments that happen on the MMORPG's and Shooters. Wouldn't you like to have a permanent record if you were the victor or a high ranker in such a tournament?
- Produce your own video to tape. You produce an original video, but you can't tape it without interference patterns or light noise. This doesn't even aid the hollywood studios, other than cutting potential amature video producers out of the loop. Mostly it just aids producers of high-end video hardware which gives the user control on the kind of output and copyprotection he wants on his stuff.
- Reproduce non-copyrighted or grey-area video. Anime fansubs are very rapidly becoming an all-online phenominon. Non-english anime videos are recorded from TV or other sources, subtitled, and then distributed for free in areas where that video is not otherwise available. Suppose you wanted to share such a video with someone who doesn't have a computer and can't play back Divx files? Unless you have a way to bypass macrovision, you're SOL.
- Play DVD's from your computer's DVD player on your TV. If you had a perfectly good Computer DVD setup and TV out device, why should you bother buying a separate standalone DVD player? Ease and convenience, sure, but many who don't care or are trying to save money, this is an extra expense.
Until I can get a video-out card that doesn't have macrovision enabled, I'm sticking with my pre-macrovision Matrox PCI card for TV out purposes.
I'm not a military guy or someone who knows a lot about weapons, but doesn't the amount of damage a round does have a lot more to do with how it's constructed rather than how much energy it carries?
Case in point: Say a bullet was designed with a sharp point for armor-piercing purposes or 'splintering' points for maximum internal damage. Would the fact that it was made from DU rather than lead dramatically alter how well it did its job? It seems to me that DU rounds, being more massive than similiar-sized lead rounds, would require more propellant to acheive the same velocity so it could reap any rewards that would come from higher kinetic energy. It seems like common sense that it would be cheaper and more effective to use more less expensive lead bullets to do the same job.
Please let me know if DU rounds are just a sales gimmick on the part of arms manufacturers or if they really do provide a better $$$ to kill ratio.
What are the advantages of u238 shells and rounds over lead ammunition or ammunition made out of some other material?
Hmm.... I wonder if this realy works.
(Fires up OfficeXP)
Dear Microsoft. I have--
Clippy Says: "It appears that you're writing Y.O.U. W.I.L.L. B.O.W. D.O.W.N. T.O. T.H.E W.I.L.L. O.F. B.I.L.L. Y.O.U. W.I.L.L. S.U.B.M.I.T. Y.O.U. W.I.L.L O.B.E.Y. Y.O.U. W.I.L.L. N.O.T. I.N.S.T.A.L.L. L.I.N.U.X. a letter. If you'd like, Office XP can help you choose from several helpful templates that will make your task easier and more fun."
Hmmm.... Nope. I don't see anything at all wrong with the speech recognition software.
Especially if they assess tax on a per-byte or a per-intruction rate.
WinXP has many, many millions of lines of code, which Microsoft and its pirates reproduce endlessly. If Each of those lines of code had a $5 tax on it, Microsoft would be forced to start streamlining their code, using less bloaty software production methods... using more tight, sleek assembly code instead of fat, saggy Visual Basic.
Every line of code will have to be evaluted on a cost to benifit ratio!
This has the added benifit of speeding up applications and systems and elminating unecessary
The same holds true for other software projects. Something sleek and sexy like Winamp 2.x would be more cost efficient than the Winamp 3.x line, which is getting pretty bloaty. Of course, I don't see how they could tax winamp since it's a 'free' project. n% of $0 is still $0.
By this same token, it suddenly becomes more cost efficient for Microsoft to give all its software away for free and *only* charge for services.
To Whom it May Concern:
I have been purchasing and playing Blizzard games for about four years. I have enjoyed Blizzard titles like 'Diablo', 'Diablo II', 'Starcraft' and 'Starcraft: Broodwar'. I have spent hard-earned money on Blizzard titles and have spent countless hours playing them.
That said, I do not plan to purchase or play any more Blizzard titles. Why? Blizzard games has threatened legal action under the DMCA against the Bnetd project (http://www.bnetd.org/), an open source multiplayer system for games that use Blizzard's 'Battle Net' multiplayer system.
In press releases and news articles, Blizzard has indicated that it feels that because Bnetd will not and cannot check users for proper licensing that it contributes to piracy of Blizzard games.
Unfortunately, Bnetd is a small project run by volunteers who have no ability to hire expensive lawyers to defend themselves against Blizzard's claims, regardless of their merit. Blizzard software is effectively using their financial resources to silence and eliminate a possible competitor.
This practice is despicable. I don't associate with individuals who believe that this is an acceptable practice and I will not support a company who does so either.
Further, I will encourage everyone I know to stop supporting your company and to stop buying Blizzard games because of this reprehensible act. In effect, your 'anti-piracy' concerns have lost you a paying customer. I hope that the irony of this is not lost on money-conscious salespeople or executives.
Hopefully, Blizzard games will realize that it is driving away in dependant developers, gamers, and other customers with this act and will with withdraw its legal threats against the Bnetd project. Hopefully, it will even issue a formal apology to the members of the Bnetd project. Until then, what I stated above remains in effect. You have lost me and everyone else I speak to on the matter as paying customers.
Humans have a tendancy to cast biological, and even human, behaviors on anything that is outside their ken.
Case in point. When I was helping my mother restore her computer after she was infected with Code Red, she was infuriated at the worm. While she is a computer professional, she is not a coder and has no understanding of... say... how machine code executes a loop or a goto. She talked about Code Red as if it really was a living thing despite the fact that she knew better. One of the things she said that stuck in my head was 'Why would it do that to me?'
Man, I loved TRON so much when I was a kid. Besides seeing the movie and renting the VHS cassette over and over again, I pumped dozens of dollars into TRON and DISCS of TRON game machines.
When I first heard that TRON was going to get a SE DVD I was ecstatic. Then I remembered who produced TRON. I remembered the fight in congress to introduce the SSSCA, which has been largely fueled by that same company.
So, thank you, Disney, for giving me a wonderful experience in my youth. Thanks, but no thanks, for the TRON SE DVD. I won't spend my money to help a company that wants to surgically remove my rights to do what I want to with my computer or any media I buy.
If you have any feeling at all about the SSSCA don't spend your money on the TRON SE DVD.
Not a lot of places sell slate blackboards or greenboards any more simply because they last decades and whiteboards are significantly cheaper to produce.
That said, a large blackboard costs about 200 dollars. $400 for blackboard plus transmission hardware is really not that bad.
Music industry heads have long relied on the fact that money can buy credibility, especially from the two classes of people they're most concerened with... government regulators and performing artists. Before the music-sharing era, these were the only ones they *had* to be credible for.
What RIAA heads like this guy and Hillary Rosen are demonstrating, however, is their complete and total lack of intelligence, wisdom, and understanding of the technology they're dealing with. MPAA's going through the same thing. DeCSS was supposed to be uncrackable, and I beleive in my heart that Jack Valenti and his buddies bought that hook line and sinker. When Jon J. cracked it, it was not just a kick in the movie industry's legal nuts, but a phenominal blow to their credibility. Record industry is going through the same thing right now with CD copy protection. Nothing they can do will prvent the ripping and encoding of CD's, even if MP3 traders have to revert to using non-digital capture methods. (Headphone to Audio-in port, anyone?) Despite this *obvious* problem with audio copy-protection, the music studios are trudging forward with poorly thought out, poorly tested, unworkable, and uneeded copy protection controls. This makes them look like idiots to the public.
Articles like this are both promoting and refelcting the popular opinion that not only is the RIAA a bunch of idiotic cartoon bad guys, but that they *deserve* to be taken advantage of.
The RIAA's worst enemy is not P2P, MP3, or even the people who trade audio files. The RIAA's worst enemy is itself.
An SMTP relay can also be configured to use either password, email address or IP-based verification. There's no reason for him to be running an open server unless his 'friends' change email addresses regularly and cannot remember a password.
This was my typo and not Taco's. He fixed it after the fact. The Then/Than was all his, tho....
I'm pretty sure that 'Tonami' was my mistake, and that Taco fixed it after it was posted.
Go to a public library. Logon to the internet terminal found in most public libraries. Create a Hotmail or Yahoo Mail account. Use that account to E-Mail the FSF with your company's name, the project's name, and as many details about the project as you can without personally identifying yourself.
Then, later, you can sleep like a baby, knowing you did the right thing.
Emissions of light (at wavelengths of 595 to 645 nanometers) likely arise from a tenuous atmosphere of oxygen. These glows would appear red to the eye and are consequently colored red in the movie.
Io is also brutally hot, has lots of tectonic activity, and hot and cold running Sulphur Volcanoes.
Still, there is this little tidbit from Solarviews:
The temperature on Io's surface is about -143 C (-230 F); however, a large hot spot associated with a volcanic feature measured about 17 C (60 F). Scientists believe the hot spot may be a lava lake, although the temperature indicates the surface is not molten. This feature is reminiscent of lava lakes on Earth.
My imagination can't help but be stirred by the idea of an open air Ionian resort hotel with swimming pools heated by molten Sulphur and with a dramatic view of Jupiter in the background.
*sigh*... The problems with this is that IO apparently has very little radiation shielding in comparison to earth. Sure you could land there... maybe even walk around, but if you took off your radiation shielding or went outside the sheilded dome, you'd get a fatal tan almost instantly, I think.
Also, while there is an atmospehre, IO is not much more massive than the Earth's moon. Even if it does have oxygen, you'd have to compress and mix it with something other than vaporized sulphur before humans could breath it.
Still, what an idea...