> not all of us are having international phone calls with known
> members of Al Qaeda, because this is the only group of people
> that were affected by this executive order
I'm sorry, that's incorrect.
The current administration has secretly authorized the NSA to break the law by warrantlessly monitoring all of us [Americans] that are making extraterritorial phone calls.
If conducting international business or having a chat with friends & family outside the country (perhaps Canada or Mexico) constitutes seditious behavior worthy of summary warrantless monitoring, then count a very great number of Americans under suspicion. A fishing expedition of the sort that the 4th Amendment was meant to prevent.
EPIC, EFF and other Slashdot faves take umbrage to this unconstitutional behavior by the executive administration of the US government, as do I.
1. You're completely right. It's the political party of the executive ruling party, and not the actual administration. We can all see how independent the administration is from the party line.
2. In case you haven't read the news lately I'll be succinct: the current administration is spying on all of us.
Sorry if the humor was a little oblique. Won't happen again.
I for one am shocked -SHOCKED- to see such behavior from a party that espouses both "small government" and keeping it's nose out of our business. This is completely out of character with the current administration, and I'm sure will be responsibly acknowledged and dealt with. Expect a public mea culpa from the president shortly.
Here are the first 20 sentences of the test, noting the gender of the reader and the stanza:
F[H21/08]: (unintelligible) taught the new maid to serve. M[H06/03]: Adding fast leads to wrong sums. M[H06/04]: The show was a flop from the very start. F[ ???? ]: There was water in the cellar after the heavy rain F[ ???? ]: They're not listed in the new phone book. M[H01/10]: A large size in stockings is hard to sell. M[H01/06]: The juice of lemons makes fine punch. F[H39/07]: Smoke poured out of every crack. F[H39/08]: Serve the hot rum to the tired heroes. M[H07/10]: Those words were the cue for the actor to leave. M[H08/01]: A yacht slid around the point into the bay. F[H10/05]: The play seems dull and quite stupid. F[H11/06]: Thieves who rob friends deserve jail. M[H06/01]: The frosty air passed through the coat. M[H06/02]: The crooked maze failed to fool the mouse. F[H21/09]: He wrote his last novel there at the inn. F[H21/10]: Even the worst will beat his low score. M[H06/05]: A saw is a tool used for making boards. M[H06/06]: The wagon moved on well oiled wheels. F[H24/01]: Try to have the court decide the case.
That's just weird (in a Conet Project sort of way)!
Re:Various conspiracy theories...
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· Score: 1
| I'm pretty sure there was a Cherry that made computer keyboards.
I love their POS stuff, but that Linux keyboard was a little schmaltzy.
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| Investors pulled out when they realised that
| Cherry is a really pathetic name - and I'm pretty
| sure it's already trademarked for some other
| computer equiptment [sic]
Yeah, no kidding. Smells like another Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox to me. For instance:
Cherry Corporation
Point-of-Sale, Automotive
Cherry Semiconductor
Discrete IC's (now owned by ON Semiconductor)
Maybe they are getting out of the whole crowded fruit-based naming convention, and thus, avoid the obligatory Pac-Man jokes that plague these stories each time they're reported here.
I was kind of relieved to see that the reviewed Make article was written by the author of the original $14 Steadycam site, Johnny Chung Lee. The man's a hack, and I mean that in the most endearing way.
Not to review a review of an instruction, but I think Ars Technica is being a little hard on the Chung. Operating a steadycam is a bit of an artform unto itself.
A steadycam will not turn Shakes the Clown into the next Scorsese, but once you learn the limitations of the axes you'll get results like Mr. Lee posts as samples on his site (see the bottom of the page, under "Using Your Steadycam").
Hmmf. I tried to post only:
ALL THESE WORLDS
ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE
Slash said:
Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted! Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Yeah, well- tell that to the swarm of monoliths on Jupiter.
This reminds me of Sugata Mitra's altruistic "Hole in the Wall" experiment; providing publicly-available ruggedized PC's embedded in protective enclosures for the intellectual arousal and enlightenment of street children.
Who's laughing? The/etc/lilo.conf on a
particular host of mine passes the 40x25
kernel parameter "vga=0x0100".
`top` looks real funny at that reso-
lution, and `ls -l` is useless, but
`mplayer -vo aa [...]` at 40x25 has a
coarseness that is almost heraldic in
its low-tech beauty.
Sometimes I have to go back to 80, but
not if I can help it. It makes me agora-
phobic.
I say this article doesn't exist: Nothing to see here, move along
Edit: they fixed the link. Nevermind.
Edit: No they didn't, I'm still getting weird errors
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment... like the body or the subject!)
I wouldn't mind licensed pilots being able to do this, but adding another axis to most licensed drivers' spatial coordination is a recipe for disaster. Confer cellphones, fast food and road rage.
These days anything bad (b) is [(b)+terrorist|(b)+terror|terror+(b)]
Yesterday it was [(b)+communist|(b)+communism|communism+(b)]
Often forming ridiculous juxtaposition:
Zoning: Amerika's communismspotted outside a junkyard in the 80's Integration = communismsigns held by white segregationists in Hoxie: The First Stand
It's a basic tenet of [marketing|propaganda] to short-circuit thought and draw associations.
it.slashdot.org is color terrorism
Cherry makes a bunch of POS equipment, so perhaps their manufacturing processes == a higher MTBF than your average $6 PC-104 keyboard.
For the applications I use Linux for, abridged and super-extended keyboards interest me greatly. Small, medium and large POS keyboards look cool, are programmable and often have physical keylocks.
Rumor has it Alpine violated GPL with their so-called "Bass Engine" technology.
Apparently, little more than obfuscated code from this open source project.
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> members of Al Qaeda, because this is the only group of people
> that were affected by this executive order
I'm sorry, that's incorrect.
The current administration has secretly authorized the NSA to break the law by warrantlessly monitoring all of us [Americans] that are making extraterritorial phone calls .
If conducting international business or having a chat with friends & family outside the country (perhaps Canada or Mexico) constitutes seditious behavior worthy of summary warrantless monitoring, then count a very great number of Americans under suspicion. A fishing expedition of the sort that the 4th Amendment was meant to prevent.
EPIC, EFF and other Slashdot faves take umbrage to this unconstitutional behavior by the executive administration of the US government, as do I.
1. You're completely right. It's the political party of the executive ruling party, and not the actual administration. We can all see how independent the administration is from the party line.
2. In case you haven't read the news lately I'll be succinct: the current administration is spying on all of us.
Sorry if the humor was a little oblique. Won't happen again.
I for one am shocked -SHOCKED- to see such behavior from a party that espouses both "small government" and keeping it's nose out of our business. This is completely out of character with the current administration, and I'm sure will be responsibly acknowledged and dealt with. Expect a public mea culpa from the president shortly.
The odds are good, but the goods are odd.
After I heard the Verizon Wireless testing audio track linked in TFA I had to google the surrealist sentences they chose. I stumbled upon the weird-ass Harvard Psychoacoustic Sentence List, and I don't know which is stranger; the official test sentences or the unofficial ones they added themselves.
Here are the first 20 sentences of the test, noting the gender of the reader and the stanza:
That's just weird (in a Conet Project sort of way)!
Right on; same Cherry.
In addition to making lots of cool POS keyboards and bump bars, you may recall the Cherry CyMotion Master Linux keyboard (scoffing emphasis mine).
I love their POS stuff, but that Linux keyboard was a little schmaltzy.
| Cherry is a really pathetic name - and I'm pretty
| sure it's already trademarked for some other
| computer equiptment [sic]
Yeah, no kidding. Smells like another Phoenix/Firebird/Firefox to me. For instance:
Cherry Corporation Point-of-Sale, Automotive Cherry Semiconductor Discrete IC's (now owned by ON Semiconductor)Maybe they are getting out of the whole crowded fruit-based naming convention, and thus, avoid the obligatory Pac-Man jokes that plague these stories each time they're reported here.
HOMER: By the way, I was being sarcastic.
MARGE: Well, duh.
Not to review a review of an instruction, but I think Ars Technica is being a little hard on the Chung. Operating a steadycam is a bit of an artform unto itself.
A steadycam will not turn Shakes the Clown into the next Scorsese, but once you learn the limitations of the axes you'll get results like Mr. Lee posts as samples on his site (see the bottom of the page, under "Using Your Steadycam").
They'll merge back into Ma Bell.
I recognize this one: Stuttgart International Airport. D'oh (auf Deutsch)!
| [...] a large number of sequences will be shot
| purely in "first-person" perspective [...]
Ah. Sam Raimi got tapped to direct Doom then, did he?
ARE YOURS EXCEPT EUROPA
ATTEMPT NO LANDING THERE
USE THEM TOGETHER
USE THEM IN PEACE Slash said: Lameness filter encountered. Post aborted!
Reason: Don't use so many caps. It's like YELLING.
Yeah, well- tell that to the swarm of monoliths on Jupiter.
| Laugh all you want [...]
Who's laughing? The /etc/lilo.conf on a
particular host of mine passes the 40x25
kernel parameter "vga=0x0100".
`top` looks real funny at that reso-
lution, and `ls -l` is useless, but
`mplayer -vo aa [...]` at 40x25 has a
coarseness that is almost heraldic in
its low-tech beauty.
Sometimes I have to go back to 80, but
not if I can help it. It makes me agora-
phobic.
Confer John Gabriel's Greater Internet Fuckwad Theory:
Normal person + Anonymity + Audience = Total fuckwad
Nothing to see here, move along
Edit: they fixed the link. Nevermind. ... like the body or the subject!)
Edit: No they didn't, I'm still getting weird errors
Cat got your tongue? (something important seems to be missing from your comment
I wouldn't mind licensed pilots being able to do this, but adding another axis to most licensed drivers' spatial coordination is a recipe for disaster. Confer cellphones, fast food and road rage.
I run 40x25, you insensi-
tive clod!
Big deal. Any old holophone can play movies, it's just a matter of how smart the operator is.
These days anything bad (b) is [(b)+terrorist|(b)+terror|terror+(b)]
Yesterday it was [(b)+communist|(b)+communism|communism+(b)]
Often forming ridiculous juxtaposition:
Zoning: Amerika's communism spotted outside a junkyard in the 80's
Integration = communism signs held by white segregationists in Hoxie: The First Stand
It's a basic tenet of [marketing|propaganda] to short-circuit thought and draw associations.
it.slashdot.org is color terrorism
Cherry makes a bunch of POS equipment, so perhaps their manufacturing processes == a higher MTBF than your average $6 PC-104 keyboard.
For the applications I use Linux for, abridged and super-extended keyboards interest me greatly. Small, medium and large POS keyboards look cool, are programmable and often have physical keylocks.
But then, I've got a bit of a POS bias. ;)
Udemakura Arm Pillow
Article
Picture
Article
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Google Error
Server Error
The service you requested is not available at this time.
Service error -27.
I noticed this about 30 minutes ago, and it's still happening now (~12:30PM ET).
Rumor has it Alpine violated GPL with their so-called "Bass Engine" technology.
Apparently, little more than obfuscated code from this open source project.