There were no arrests, but make no mistake that those FBI documents were improperly obtained. Do a google search on "Clinton FBI files" and you'll see a zillion hits, including many major news sources (like cnn, pbs, aclu, newsmax, the washinton post, abcnews, etc. etc.). Clinton made the affair go away by saying it was all just a simple mix up and nothing improper was intended. Yeah right. People always seemed so desparate to believe anything Clinton said, they just couldn't find enough excuses for the man no matter what he did. Makes me sick.
You people need to be cynical about *ALL* politicans, not just the ones you don't like.
You made a mistake and included No-Newsmax in the list of news sources. No-Newsmax is another Scaife-funded Chris Ruddy cocaine-fueled fantasy-Criminal-Republican-Criminal jerkoff-rag. No-Newsmax has been debunked plenty of times effortlessly. Hell, even their big lie about the Gold Star Mothers has been debunked upon the Gold Star Mothers webpage. No-Newsmax would have been flushed down the demented sewer it arose from if not for a big money play by shit-eating Scaife.
The thing is either human beings have to come to grips with the concept of infinitely long numbers or become uncaring about them.
It mirrors the issue of finding a wonderously marvelous thing and then trying to find more functional useage for it. Imagine discovering a magic dildo that changes all wombats to umbrellas. Surely it would be of strictly limited productive useage, however, the act of exploring HOW IT ACHIVES ITS FUNCTION would yield far more value than anything that could be gained by using the device itself.
As with most learning it is the journey that is more rewarding than the destination though the completion of the journey has a reward as well.
And again... Why Not? It is a far better way to waste one's time than completing a crossword puzzle though less useful than making a method for converting salt water to fresh using the minimal amount of energy with the minimal amount of time.
I thought that this was covered under Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. In order to simulate human intelligence, first we must be able to understand human intelligence. However, we cannot do this because human intelligence is ultimately axiomatic, and Godel states that we cannot create an axiomatic system without going beyond its constraints. Since we are obviously constrained by human intelligence, we cannot understand it, much less recreate it ourselves. If we could understand human thought, the social sciences would become true mathematical sciences, rather than humanities which use scientific thought processes. Perhaps we could eventually develop AI to the point where it can simulate lower animal behavior [popsci.com], but the search for machines capable of human levels of thought is ultimately futile.
Ah yes, the infinite problem of the hand drawing itself. The problem is naturally in concept rather than execution. I may not be able to easily model my own functioning brain all in a instant, however, since your working brain is modelable, I can do that instead.
I can draw a image of my own hand, I can sculpt an 3D model of my own hand, I can even grow cells into a working model of my own hand, and ultimately create a funtional replacement of my own hand. I CANNOT however separate my hand into component cells and use that to create a new hand.
Remember that all functions can be modeled into another medium if the abstract concepts behind those functions are sound and complete.
I could feasably model another duplicate body of mine in functional metals yet in a higher temperature enviroment (around 800 degrees where most metals become near liquids), but it would not be easy to make a suitable stable form given the higher ambient energy levels.
You are taking the mindset of "If we were meant to fly then we should have been born with wings."
Which is indeed bullshit as humans could be given wings provided they had sufficent bioenergy reserves to handle the effort of flapping wings, the skeletal frame reinforced to handle the stress of having huge wingspans, a circulatory system with two or three hearts to circulate blood into the wings, larger lungs to feed more oxygen into the body to compensate for the oxygen draw of the wings, and the ability to consume more food to feed the wings power storage supplies.
The other option is to create removable wings of a biological manner which are fed from a biological food tank and have some control manner for the humans to manipulate or mechanical wings which follow distinct flapping patterns which humans control by a handpad and control stick.
If it is allowable in the rules of physics (which a mechanical brain is indeed allowable) then the only limit remains in the effort in effort devoted to creating that device. Biological brains exist thusly mechanical brains can exist as many properties of brain functions are duplicatable with existing technology.
I'm not trying to be flamebait here, but I'm confused on why Math doesn't deal with reality very well.
Example:
Using Standard measurements, a 10ft length can be split into three equal lengths of 3ft 4in.
Why can't that same 10' length be broken with decimal math? Why is it 3.33333333333...ad infinitum?
Also: If I were to take a 10' length and bend it on itself so it made a circle I have a 10' circumfrence right? Then in theory I could get out my ruler and measure the radius and get a measurement that made sense. I can get real numbers by measuring, but the math doesn't agree...Why?
Um... you do realize that the thickness of your cutting blade throws off your accuracy a TAD. Unless you're slicing by laser or you have diamond nanofiber cutting strand, your measurement will be off by what the ruler shows. In fact if you were to be REALLY picky, you'd notice that your cutting device (even with a near perfect guide) will be thrown off by irregularities in the wood and the blade itself. A laser measurement will show your cutting WAY OFF on the micrometer scales and ever more shockingly off by the nanomeasurement scale.
So if you remeasure your wood you will find that you are missing your full 10 feet if you reglue the wood back together after cutting.
Math divisions are a abstract calculation layered upon an imperfect world where perfect measurements are only an illusion at best and a pure lie at worst. You can approximate the best you can, but if you pour water out of a measuring cup some water will remain adhered to the walls of the measuring cup and some will evaporate in the process of pouring. You will never have a perfect measurement as the act of measurement is taking place in a world where imperfection is the rule.
while it's true (I think) that any fininte sequence of digits will eventually appear in a non-repeating, infinite sequence, I think the point in the book was that the odds of our being able to find it, given the tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny portion of the number space we're able to search with our extremely finite computing power, would be evidence that it was placed there if we ever did manage to find it.
Put another way, it would have to be hanging in easy reach for us to be able to find such an insanely improbable thing as (say) a 500x500 block of pre-arranged digits. In base 11, that would be 11^(25,000), a number too hideous to contemplate, and think of the size of the space you'd need to search before such a number would be found just based on probability. So if we found such a thing, we either beat bazillion^bazillion-to-one odds, or we found something that was left there for us. Interesting.
Actually, base converting Pi in to Base 11 is actually pretty damn EASY.
Here is the number 3.1415926535897932384626433832795 3 in Base 11 = 3 Now the rest is simple. Multiply 0.1415926535897932384626433832795 by 11 Take the number past to the left of the decimal point and use this as your first digit of Base 11 Pi. In this case it is = 1. Subtract that number and multiply by 11 again. The number you get is 6.
Now if you Wash - Rinse - Repeat you'll arrive at the number in Base 11 (3.16150702865A485235215...) Pretty simple? You can do this quickly with other bases without hitting negative powers of the base number. You can also convert a number in another base quickly using the technique from my earlier post in this Slashdot chat. The trick is to convert your target base number into the base that you're converting from. It works for all decimals just like RADIX works for all integers. Do a find for "matrix29" on this page and you'll hit my previous post right off.
You can also convert to non-integer bases (ergo Base 7.886) but the method is a tad more awkward.
They keep taking pi out so damned far to see if it contains all possible patterns of numbers (which is a lot). Since its irrationial its possible and if we convert these 1.4 trillion places into binary then we can start and stop at any point along the way and have stuff. then instead of sending a binary package out to somebody, you can give them where to stop and start along the path, of course that number may be larger than what you want to send, but it'd still be cool.
Now before any one starts screaming "COUNTING ARGUEMENT" and "PIGEONHOLE PRINCIPALS" I would like to mention to the crowd that although Pi is indeed finite, any number of irrationals or transcendentals used as dictionary sets can do this very thing. Pi alone cannot be used for efficent dictionary transmission compression (using two identical dictionarys on two computers and citing the page number and word number in place of sending the word itself and gaining speed by the reduced data requirements in transmission), BUT using the cube root of 2 and the Golden Ratio and perhaps any number of precalculated numbers will allow huge shortcuts in data transmission (it is not perfect, but still a workable method for more rapid data transmission).
By the way, to verify that I'm not pulling this out of my ass, just multiply DEC (0.675537109375) by 16. DEC (0.675537109375)* 16 = 10.80859375 Subtract the 10 and convert 10 to HEX =.AC Now take 0.80859375 = 12.9375 Convert 12 to HEX = 0.AC and subtract from the number. Multiply 0.9375 * 16 = 15 That gives us a decimal number in HEX of 0.ACE
SWEET ??? I play with non-integer decimal bases and have to find shortcuts to speedy math.
I just figured I'd follow up on that for the people who thought my numbers just whizzed over their heads.
There is a pattern to pi in Hex. There is a well known equation to calculate the digits of pie in hex (im sure google [google.com] knows). Of course converting it to decimal requires you to add smaller and smaller fractions of 16^n, so it doesnt get you anywhere.
Actually there is a trick that speeds things up somewhat in base converting from decimals.
Take the number 0.57 (Base 10) and convert that to (Base 7). Here is the routine. 0.57 * 7 = 3.99 Your first digit is 3 and your converted number begins 0.3 Now subtract 3 from 3.99 to get.99 Now multiply by 7 0.99 * 7 = 6.93 Now your number is 0.36 (Get the pattern? It is the opposite of RADIX conversion) Wash - Rinse - Repeat to get 0.366336633663... (or a repeat of.3663)
Okay. Now we begin converting HEX to Base 10. You have to convert your multiplier into the Base you're converting to. So you multiply the Hexdecimal Pi by "A" and your result will be in HEX base. Wash - Rinse - Repeat.
For example. Take HEX (0.ACE) * A = HEX (6.C16) (and you multiply the number and convert back to HEX. For example 6 * A = 60 which converts into HEX 3C, carry the 3, multiply A * 1 = 10 + 3 = 13, convert 13 to HEX and get "D", multiply A * C = 120, convert to HEX to get 78. That is how I arrived at the multiplication results below). (All numbers following are in HEX) A * 0.C16 = 7.8DC A * 0.8DC = 5.898 A * 0.898 = 5.5F A * 0.5F = 3.B6 A * 0.B6 = 7.1C A * 0.1C = 1.18 A * 0.18 = 0.F A * 0.F = 9.6 A * 0.6 = 3.C A * 0.C = 7.8 A * 0.8 = 5 Result = HEX (0.ACE) = DEC (0.675537109375)
It actually is astoundingly simple to base convert decimals this way. To do the reverse, just divide the decimals.
Yeah!! Look what the internet did to the porn industry!
Seriously.. You'd think Hollywood could learn a thing or two from the XXX industry. Look how mainstream it became via the internet. Hard to understand why they don't see it as the powerful distrobution vehicle it could be.
I mean if you distributed 100% more copies of , why fight so hard because 5% of them are pirated? Mo money, mo money mo money. You don't see vivid video fighting to shut down distribution of their films.
Most of it is stolen from each other, or other places.
Don't belive me check out those so called sites that use "Adult varification." 99% of their anime stuff they provide is stolen.
Uh and the PROBLEM IS???
Porn is profitable by ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY. There are laws requiring Adult Verification (the first piece of the profit margin which encourages production) and once inside the sites if you see something stolen (the second part of the profit margin - near free supply) from somebody else you still are getting your bucks worth.
Hell, I could take naked pictures of myself and so long as it doesn't hurt my steady job, it becomes easy money. To quoth the comedian, "Just strap a web cam to your dildo and BANG! You're an international internet porn star." Very low cost of entry (joke intended) and a steady churn of new images available.
Imagine the movie industry realizing that cable TV can bring in customers and they profit well to boot! NAPSTER (before it got RIAA-ASSRAPED) was the best thing to hit the CD industry. The RIAA IS CHOCK FULL OF ABSOLUTE MORONS! If I don't hear the songs I don't buy the songs. NAPSTER was akin to radio music broadcasts BUT the user gets to choose what they listen to.
Since I've pretty much boycotted the RIAA (and CD buying) COMPLETELY BECAUSE OF THE RIAA's ACTIONS they haven't gotten more than $10 from me in the past 2 years. That's ALL THEIR FAULT. Piracy in this case was their best promotion method and it was FREE ADVERTISING. Now the RIAA wants to cram their idea of what I should buy down my throat and I vomit in their faces. Sure I still am buying things, DVDs & computer games & stuff for my home & car (about $8000 worth over the past year) but I refuse completely to fund the RIAA-ASSHOLES.
As the saying goes, "Share the wealth smartly and it will come back to you twofold."
Actors and puppets are much more realistic and engaging and inexpensive than computer animation, and make for a better movie, but that doesn't stop Lucas from overspending on CG.
(Rubs hands greedily) Aha, now to pitch my idea of a all-Muppet remake of David Lynch's DUNE movie. The time is ripe. (Starts evil cackling)
You dont need to copy it. Just use something non permiable to coat the edge of the disk. Something like finger nail polish might work. That way air can't get to it.
Or you could just strip off the metallic layer and recoat it with a shiny metallic coat.
This is how you make horrible things happen: propose something truly nasty, and let users and techies make a huge fuss about it. Then back down from the worst practice due to "customer input" and simply go forward without the top 5% of the bad stuff. Now MS has implemented 95% of their bad stuff, but techies and consumers don't mind because they've now Made a Difference.
And the simple answer is, "Just DO NOT BUY - DO NOT BUY - MICROSOFT CRAPWARE - Don't feed the MONSTER."
It is the only sure way to slay The Beast. Do not reward evil works with good money.
Perhaps Google should countersue SearchKing for spamming Google's customers. It probably won't win, but would drain resources from SpamKing, I mean SearchKing.
Or just block them and their related sites out cold. They wouldn't be the first ISP to do it.
Listing of Domains Denied Mail Access @NRCDXAS.ORG
The following domains have been placed in our "deny" file. This is due to mail abuses that they have not addressed. Mail abuses can be the sending of spam, virus, abusive e-mail to participants in a list or private address, or severe misconduct by a user. When this happens the domain is contacted. If they a) do not correct the problem, or b) do not acknowledge the problem, then they are placed on the deny list.
If you are the owner of one of these domains, and you wish to be removed from this list, you must pay the $50.00 administrative fee for having to clean up your users problem, and take corrective action to prevent further abuse. Please do not contact me unless you are willing to pay the fee and make reasonable security contacts with complaints filed.
[ skipping down ] 202. @searchking.com 203. @securetrader.org 204. @seventwentyfour.com 205. @sexyfun.net [ end clip ]
And if anyone is interested here is an interview with the shyster by another shyster website Pagerank Interview with Bob Massa PageRank For Sale Exclusive interview with SearchKing / PR Ad Network's Robert Massa. SearchKing has started selling text ads on its network of independent portals, with prices based on Google PageRank. Jono Craig asks Robert Massa of SearchKing if he really believes he can get away with it.
Like any other business, we have expenses. Employees, servers, bandwidth, rent and utilities. Let's not forget the taxes too. All these expenses have to paid and we are able to pay them through the revenues we receive from advertisers. People who want YOU as their customers.
I refuse to believe this operation is anything more than Bob Massa sitting in his parents' basement. Every piece of content on his web site was written by him. That's a busy CEO...
We'd like you to be able to get to know the people who will be working on your placement. We have a staff of 8 people and each of these people play a specific and crucial role in our clients success. We also have several people that we contract out to build your promotional domain.
BOB The BOSS. e-mail: bobking@searchking.com Robert (Bob) Massa has over 25 years experience in sales, advertising and marketing; marketing online since April '96. 2nd E-mail: bobcard@ionet.net
Picture not yet available DAN PROGRAMER Dan Kavanaugh came all the way from Montana to make himself a member of the Magic-City family. He is an expert programmer. He has been working with code for many years and has even designed his own computer game. E-mail: dan@searchking.com
ROBERT LARSON Systems Admin.
Robert joined us in June 1st of 2002. Responsiblities include network and server management. Responsible for installling, configuring and troubleshooting. E-mail: karma0@spyring.com
KATHI Office Manager One of the best award winning website designers in the business. Over 1,000 web pages to her credit. Kathi is also in charge of accounts payable and affiliate management. E-mail: kathi@craftmax.com
KEVIN Data Specialist Kevin Anderson is an incredible asset to our company as he is a highly successful search engine placement professional. He is responsible for tech support and installation. E-mail: kevin@searchking.com
RONDA Search Engine Specialist Ronda has been with our company since 1999. She has an outstanding success record in placing promotional domains in the top of the search engines. E-mail: ronda@searchking.com
YVONNE (MOM KING) She has gone back to being just MOM! Hope you enjoy your time off.
CONTRACT WEB DESIGNERS
Picture not yet available MIKE R Web Designer We have been using Mike Rotter's services for web site design for over a year. He can build a web site for placement in the search engines with incredible results. E-mail: mjr@reddingcal.com
Sad to think that companies like ALTAVISTA, HOTBOT, NORTHERN LIGHT, YAHOO, and others were pretty much ruined in an all out assault on their search techinques by this Bob Massa goon. They should be SUING HIM for his actions.
[ a bit down the webpage ] Who's spamming, and does it work? Bulk e-mail can be effective, but it's not always worth the trouble it can cause the sender. Bob Massa, owner of Magic-City.Net, an Oklahoma City, Okla., company that helps other organizations increase Web traffic by submitting their URLs to search engines, used to send out bulk e-mail to advertise his service. "It was more effective than anything else I've known," he says. "When I started, I was sending 30,000 messages a night and getting about a 1 percent response rate. There were times when I got as many as 200 orders in one day."
So why did Massa quit? Because "it's no longer worth it," he says. "Anti-spammers were sending me mail bombs, hacking my site and harassing me. One irate person sent me snail mail saying that he had mailed me a pregnant venomous spider and hoped it would bite someone and cause serious injury or death."
Calvin Fuller, a Burlingame, Calif.-based entrepreneur, has had similar experiences. Fuller has been involved with several Internet businesses and is developing an online and print magazine called Bikini Models, which he describes as a "PG-rated publication that includes pictures of bikini-clad models."
During the past couple of years, Fuller has used spam extensively but has backed off lately for a number of reasons, including the reactions he got from some recipients. "For every person who is excited about what I'm promoting, I'll hear from a lot more people who take the same amount of time to say how they are annoyed."
Fuller is also having trouble finding ISPs that will let him send bulk e-mail. "Most of the major providers of bulk e-mail-friendly accounts have shut down because other ISPs will block their incoming traffic."
Massa's and Fuller's tales of the treatment they received from anti-spammers were echoed by almost everyone I interviewed who had used spam to market products and services. Onsale Inc., a Menlo Park, Calif.-based public company that holds Web auctions, experimented with bulk e-mail but soon dropped it, according to Michelle Pettigrew, vice president of business development. Onsale used software to crawl the EBay Inc. auction site to pick up about 20,000 names and e-mail addresses.
Although Onsale received a significant number of positive inquiries as a result of its mailings, the company also got a lot of negative comment from EBay, Pettigrew says. In general, the potential for backlash is too great. "There are," Pettigrew adds, "ways to reach those customers through other means--such as banner ads--that are nontoxic."
The reaction against spam has been so strong that even people who use subscription-based lists sometimes get angry letters. I know because I'm one of them. I operate a free mailing list for people interested in following the articles I post to my Web site, www. larrysworld.com. The only way to get on the mailing list is to subscribe, but I've still received a number of angry letters from people who apparently forgot they had subscribed. For a while, a temporary glitch in my software failed to remove people who had asked to be deleted, resulting in several letters threatening legal action or requesting that ISPs block all mail from my account. Most people graciously accepted my apology, but a few remained angry. [ more on the web page ]
A pic of Bob Massa Bob also owns Searchking, Inc., a unique concept in search engine services which has been online since 1997 and is continuing to grow through a strategy of providing hosted search service software to the public. In a little over one year Searchking has become the largest "portal" host in the world with over 1,000 online portals on it's servers.
Yeah, I can see him as a large "portal" (www.goatse.cx)
A bit of truth even from Bob Massa's lips As the engine has become celebrated for taking users directly to the information they want, though, a question has emerged in the minds of internet entrepreneurs who are no longer the recipients of millions of easy dollars: could it be manipulated for much-needed profit? One of Google's advantages has always been its refusal to sell placements in its rankings to the highest bidder, but the PageRank system, some argue, has its loopholes. Because Google measures how many pages link to a site, what if you set up thousands of web pages solely for the purpose of linking to one commercial site?
Some have accused Bob Massa, proprietor of a "search optimisation" service called Searchking, of doing just that. "All I want is for webmasters with small sites to get rewarded fairly," he says. "This is a chance to see that those guys get visitors and put up good content. Google wants good content. I can't see any problem."
You twirp! How dare you call her Ms. Coulter. Its Mr. Ann Coulter to you, Max Vlast. Mr. Coulter recieved her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School; which I doubt if any slashdot reader has a Doctorate. You can read more about Dr. Ann Coulter from her biography [SlutsGoneInsane.com].
As to your question, I doubt that Mr. Coulter is the promiscuous type. She is a conservative and therefore she is Right. She would never gave premarital sex, unlike most leftists who can't recognize morals even if it smacked them upside the head.
She/He is a LANKY SKANKYNUTTY SLUTTYIGNORANT WHORE with one wasted existence to pass himself/herself off as a woman. She/He reminds me of those reptile people on the TV series "V". Cold-blooded and always spitting venom.
Ann "LANKY SKANKY" Coulter is a perfect example of the "Seduction of the Ignorant" crowd that fuels the rancid Criminal Republican Criminal Party Criminals and their twisted anti-American spew which regularly is vomited up on one of their many televised "happy to be retarded" love-fests. I see every Ann "LANKY SKANKY" Coulter appearance as yet another parade of a gaunt shemale which titillates the Rancid Criminal Republican Party while ENRON, WORLDCOM, & CHOICEPOINT robs those empty-dittoheads and their suffering children (suffering the torment of ignorant worthless parents who cheer Criminal Traitor Fraud President George Worthless Bush on while he robs them blind. These perverse demented Criminal Republican Criminals ought to be charged with child abuse for forcing these unfortunate children born to mentally defective washouts while they masturbate frantically to images of a shemale viper.
She/He says the National Review only paid him/her $5 a month for her column. The National Review was ripped off by the spindly stupid slut for his/her constant bimbo-burps she claims to fame.
Frankly I consider the LANKY SKANKY random word vomiter as most likely too scary for even Charles Manson (though those "Crazy Eyes" show even Squeaky Frome is a tame nutball compared to LANKY SKANKY).
Hey, maybe we'd see a return to the old 50's-style shiny chrome aircraft!
You mean old 50's-style shiny REDchrome aircraft.
If the aircraft is the color of the beam color then most of the beam will also be reflected. Refer to the RINGWORLD books if you're curious as a red shirt being hit by a red beam equals zero effect.
The old ones... Question: How many Internet mailing list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb? Answer: 1374. 1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mailing list that the light bulb has been changed, 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently, 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs, 27 to point out spelling errors in posts about changing light bulbs, 53 to flame the spell checkers, 41 to correct spelling in the spelling flames, 156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mailing list, 109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take this e-mail exchange to another list, 203 to demand that cross posting to other lists about changing light bulbs be stopped, 111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts _are_ relevant to this mailing list, 309 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique, and what brands are not so good, 27 to post web addresses where one can see examples of different light bulbs, 14 to post that the web addresses were posted incorrectly, and to post corrected ones, 33 to concatenate all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and footers, and then add 'Me Too!', 12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy, 19 to quote the 'Me Toos' to say, 'Me Three!', 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ, 48 to propose new <change.lite.bulb> newsgroup, 47 to say there is already an <alt.light.bulb> newsgroup, 143 to ask if anyone ever did change the light bulb. Friday, May 31. Back in June!
Okay, I had to Karma Whore just for the sake of it (sad when we define the nature of the reposter).
There are more than a few explanations for that, I hate New Scientist, they jump to conclusions too often in an effort to drum up interest in their articles.
Or just to play head games with people for laughs. Eggs are good for you today and now they're bad for you again and now they're good for you again. Confusing isn't it?
And of course The ONION's take on this whimsy science... From FussyMonkey.COM (a wonderful archive of "The ONION RADIO NEWS") http://www.fussymonkey.com/orn/
Snickering Researchers Say Dog Urine Lowers The Risk Of Heart Disease
that with his books containing the content that they do, Stephen King manages to die every single day here on slashdot. hmm, i wonder if he gets all of his ideas from doing this.
Balony there was less vote fraud in 2000 then in 1996 then in 1992.... Florida is a pretty clean state in terms of fraud and given the microscopic level of detail there is very little evidence of fraud. If there was known rampant votor fraud who has been indicted for it?
Why certainly, and of course we can blissfully ignore Katherine Harris (the hideous clown-woman) hiring CHOICEPOINT to illegally disqualify 8000 legitimate voters (even going so far as to claim people were felons arrested in 2007)with a 95% error rate (which is in itself shameless fraud which CHOICEPOINT should be prosecuted and shut down for).
And if we blissfully ignore that the "spoiled ballots" were double-punched by a IBM card puncher (remember the LONG DELAYS on the "machine recount") to punch a certain amount of each independant candidate on valid GORE ballots while optical scan ballots very rarely were spoiled.
http://www.geocities.com/redflagsinflorida/irreg ul arities.htm
Should I also remind people of the double absentee ballots sent overseas and James Baker claiming the absentee Israel voters would tilt the election to Gore so Baker claimed we should intially reject the overseas votes until the ballot fix was in.
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/09/d uplicate/ Florida sent duplicate ballots overseas Defense Department employee alleges that some co-workers on an air base in England voted twice. - - - - - - - - - - - - By Carina Chocano
Nov. 9, 2000 | At least five Florida residents serving at a U.S. Air Force base in England received two absentee ballots for this year's hotly contested presidential race, a civilian Department of Defense employee told Salon. Elaine Gatley, 48, a civil service executive secretary stationed at RAF Mildenhall in southeastern England, said Thursday that she and four fellow Floridians who work in her office received two ballots in the mail from the state of Florida.
"At first I thought it was just a fluke," Gatley said. "But when I went to work the next day, I talked to my friends and they said, 'Yeah, I received two also.'"
Gatley, a registered Democrat, completed and returned only one of the ballots she received. But she said that at least three of her fellow Floridians, all of whom are registered Republican, told her that they filled out and returned the second ballots as well.
"These people thought there was something wrong with the original ballot," said Gatley, who is married to an Air Force serviceman. "They just sent the second ballot in, thinking maybe something was wrong."
The duplicate ballots were mailed from election offices in at least three Florida counties -- Santa Rosa, Osceola and Hillsborough -- according to Gatley. The multiple ballots were sent to registered Democrats, as well as Republicans, she said.
"But the majority of overseas military people are Republicans," added Gatley. "It's usually the spouses, you know, the civilians, who are Democrats."
One of Gatley's Republican co-workers at the Air Force base confirmed to Salon that she had received two ballots from Florida. She requested that her name not be used.
According to Gatley, the majority of the base's staff comes from Florida. Gatley was formerly employed at Eglin Air Force Base near Navarre, Fla.
No one from other states with whom she spoke at Milden received more than one absentee ballot, said Gatley.
According to a Florida Elections Board official, it's common for counties to send out sample ballots before mailing the official absentee ballot. The sample should be clearly labeled, said the official, who requested anonymity.
The official also said that if someone sends in two ballots, election officials simply void one of them, not both.
But told of this comment, Gatley said she could discern no difference between the two ballots she received, nor could her co-workers. She said neither ballot was clearly marked as a sample.
Absentee ballots are still being counted in the controversial Florida race. Officials say the final absentee tally might not be completed for another eight or nine days. With George W. Bush clinging to a razor-thin lead in the Florida recount, the absentee-ballot tabulation has taken on critical importance.
Nov. 13, 2000 | While the nation focuses on several southeast Florida counties where election officials are struggling to come up with an accurate vote count from last Tuesday's presidential election, another brush fire is burning upstate in solidly Republican Duval County. There, an extraordinary number of discarded ballots are also at issue, and Democrats are crying foul.
Of the 292,000 votes cast in Duval County, nearly 9 percent, or 27,000, were nullified. "Overvoting," punching holes for more than one candidate, caused 22,000 votes to be tossed, while 5,000 were voided because voters didn't choose anyone, known as "undervoting." Machines tabulating the vote automatically spit those out.
Over the weekend, several prominent Republicans, such as GOP chairman Jim Nicholson and Rep. Tillie Fowler, R-Fla., pointed to the 22,000 nullified votes in Duval County as proof that the practice is common. They suggested that even though Bush would have benefited if there had been a hand recount in the county, which he won 152,000-107,000, they were not complaining about the process. "These things happen in elections," stressed Nicholson on CNN.
Truth is, Democrats are the ones outraged about Duval. They're angry because close to half the voided ballots -- nearly 12,000 votes -- came from just four of Duval County's 14 city districts. The four districts cover predominantly African-American areas of Jacksonville, where Vice President Al Gore won handily.
Duval County did not use the controversial "butterfly ballot," yet the number of voters apparently confused skyrocketed this year. In 1992, a combined 6,000 over- and undervotes were discarded in Duval County, and 7,500 were thrown out during the '96 presidential election, according to local officials. This year's jump to 27,000 represented 8.9 percent of all votes cast in the county, compared with 2 and 3 percent in the previous presidential tallies in Duval. Nationally, the percentage of presidential ballots discarded for under- and overvoting runs between 1.0 and 1.8 percent, according to Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for Study of the American Electorate.
What's so unusual, according to election experts such as Bob Naegele, who certifies voting machines for the Federal Election Commission, is that the normal rate of overvoting when punch-card ballots are used is roughly 0.1 percent. In Duval County last Tuesday, the rate ballooned to 7.5 percent. Even in Palm Beach County, where some residents say confusion reigned on Election Day and 29,000 ballots were dismissed, the overvote rate climbed to only 4.1 percent.
http://www.yorkdispatch.com/elec2000/001128b.htm l
Though the ballot applications already had been rejected and placed in a warehouse, Goard's staff members fetched the Republican postcards out of storage and placed them in a separate box for the GOP representatives. More than 4,500 ballot applications were corrected and ballots were sent to those Republican voters. It is unclear how many of those absentee ballots were returned as votes.
Some Democratic ballot applications also apparently arrived without some of the required information, but they were thrown out and Democrats were not provided the same opportunity to make them comply, Democratic attorneys say.
At one time you could write Woz and ask him yourself, but he's a bit swamped [woz.org] at the moment. You might want to read his answers to other letters [woz.org] to see if the answer is there.
Uh, when will he open up his webpage?
I have tried to open the URL with Internet Explorer (The page cannot be displayed) & Mozilla (connection refused) and the page simply will not load.
I can see the page content with GOOGLE cache, but nowhere else. Frankly this is sad behavior from the comedic genius behind the Mac (and much more valueable than that smirking nitwit Steve Jobs).
The point of making it smaller is so there's less current flow, and thus less heat. Granted, they'll pack more in, so the overall effect will probably be more heat generation, but per transistor, smaller ones do generate less heat.
You are right though. The smaller they make them the more they'll pack in. Without some kind of active cooling system in the chip the thing will glow like a hotplate.
"The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long." - Bladerunner (the movie, not the 1974 book about a renegade surgeon that performs operations and smuggles medical supplies in a world where medical care is free only if you submit to castration after the Earth was plagued by a lethal spinal meningitis flu. It involves the concept of a national healthcare system overwhelmed by a viral outbreak and the problem of skyrocketing costs to the nation and a eugenics shortcut to cut corners). GOOGLE up [ "Alan Nourse" "Bladerunner" ] or [ "Alan Nourse" "Blade Runner" ] to understand.
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American "ass hats" mostly.
btw what is an ASS HAT?
Someone with an ass on their head as a hat which signifies that person is an asshole.
Review at www.fark.com
I've often wondered if there's a section called "How to Torture Unsuspecting Privates" in Drill Sergeant School.
Sorry, I just had to chuckle on that one.
It would be such a perfect gay porn title.
There were no arrests, but make no mistake that those FBI documents were improperly obtained. Do a google search on "Clinton FBI files" and you'll see a zillion hits, including many major news sources (like cnn, pbs, aclu, newsmax, the washinton post, abcnews, etc. etc.). Clinton made the affair go away by saying it was all just a simple mix up and nothing improper was intended. Yeah right. People always seemed so desparate to believe anything Clinton said, they just couldn't find enough excuses for the man no matter what he did. Makes me sick.
You people need to be cynical about *ALL* politicans, not just the ones you don't like.
You made a mistake and included No-Newsmax in the list of news sources. No-Newsmax is another Scaife-funded Chris Ruddy cocaine-fueled fantasy-Criminal-Republican-Criminal jerkoff-rag. No-Newsmax has been debunked plenty of times effortlessly. Hell, even their big lie about the Gold Star Mothers has been debunked upon the Gold Star Mothers webpage. No-Newsmax would have been flushed down the demented sewer it arose from if not for a big money play by shit-eating Scaife.
Newsmax by the
Numbers
Why?
Uh, why not?
The thing is either human beings have to come to grips with the concept of infinitely long numbers or become uncaring about them.
It mirrors the issue of finding a wonderously marvelous thing and then trying to find more functional useage for it. Imagine discovering a magic dildo that changes all wombats to umbrellas. Surely it would be of strictly limited productive useage, however, the act of exploring HOW IT ACHIVES ITS FUNCTION would yield far more value than anything that could be gained by using the device itself.
As with most learning it is the journey that is more rewarding than the destination though the completion of the journey has a reward as well.
And again... Why Not?
It is a far better way to waste one's time than completing a crossword puzzle though less useful than making a method for converting salt water to fresh using the minimal amount of energy with the minimal amount of time.
I thought that this was covered under Godel's Incompleteness Theorem. In order to simulate human intelligence, first we must be able to understand human intelligence. However, we cannot do this because human intelligence is ultimately axiomatic, and Godel states that we cannot create an axiomatic system without going beyond its constraints. Since we are obviously constrained by human intelligence, we cannot understand it, much less recreate it ourselves. If we could understand human thought, the social sciences would become true mathematical sciences, rather than humanities which use scientific thought processes. Perhaps we could eventually develop AI to the point where it can simulate lower animal behavior [popsci.com], but the search for machines capable of human levels of thought is ultimately futile.
Ah yes, the infinite problem of the hand drawing itself. The problem is naturally in concept rather than execution. I may not be able to easily model my own functioning brain all in a instant, however, since your working brain is modelable, I can do that instead.
I can draw a image of my own hand, I can sculpt an 3D model of my own hand, I can even grow cells into a working model of my own hand, and ultimately create a funtional replacement of my own hand. I CANNOT however separate my hand into component cells and use that to create a new hand.
Remember that all functions can be modeled into another medium if the abstract concepts behind those functions are sound and complete.
I could feasably model another duplicate body of mine in functional metals yet in a higher temperature enviroment (around 800 degrees where most metals become near liquids), but it would not be easy to make a suitable stable form given the higher ambient energy levels.
You are taking the mindset of "If we were meant to fly then we should have been born with wings."
Which is indeed bullshit as humans could be given wings provided they had sufficent bioenergy reserves to handle the effort of flapping wings, the skeletal frame reinforced to handle the stress of having huge wingspans, a circulatory system with two or three hearts to circulate blood into the wings, larger lungs to feed more oxygen into the body to compensate for the oxygen draw of the wings, and the ability to consume more food to feed the wings power storage supplies.
The other option is to create removable wings of a biological manner which are fed from a biological food tank and have some control manner for the humans to manipulate or mechanical wings which follow distinct flapping patterns which humans control by a handpad and control stick.
If it is allowable in the rules of physics (which a mechanical brain is indeed allowable) then the only limit remains in the effort in effort devoted to creating that device. Biological brains exist thusly mechanical brains can exist as many properties of brain functions are duplicatable with existing technology.
I'm not trying to be flamebait here, but I'm confused on why Math doesn't deal with reality very well.
Example:
Using Standard measurements, a 10ft length can be split into three equal lengths of 3ft 4in.
Why can't that same 10' length be broken with decimal math? Why is it 3.33333333333...ad infinitum?
Also:
If I were to take a 10' length and bend it on itself so it made a circle I have a 10' circumfrence right? Then in theory I could get out my ruler and measure the radius and get a measurement that made sense. I can get real numbers by measuring, but the math doesn't agree...Why?
Um... you do realize that the thickness of your cutting blade throws off your accuracy a TAD. Unless you're slicing by laser or you have diamond nanofiber cutting strand, your measurement will be off by what the ruler shows. In fact if you were to be REALLY picky, you'd notice that your cutting device (even with a near perfect guide) will be thrown off by irregularities in the wood and the blade itself. A laser measurement will show your cutting WAY OFF on the micrometer scales and ever more shockingly off by the nanomeasurement scale.
So if you remeasure your wood you will find that you are missing your full 10 feet if you reglue the wood back together after cutting.
Math divisions are a abstract calculation layered upon an imperfect world where perfect measurements are only an illusion at best and a pure lie at worst. You can approximate the best you can, but if you pour water out of a measuring cup some water will remain adhered to the walls of the measuring cup and some will evaporate in the process of pouring. You will never have a perfect measurement as the act of measurement is taking place in a world where imperfection is the rule.
while it's true (I think) that any fininte sequence of digits will eventually appear in a non-repeating, infinite sequence, I think the point in the book was that the odds of our being able to find it, given the tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny tiny portion of the number space we're able to search with our extremely finite computing power, would be evidence that it was placed there if we ever did manage to find it.
Put another way, it would have to be hanging in easy reach for us to be able to find such an insanely improbable thing as (say) a 500x500 block of pre-arranged digits. In base 11, that would be 11^(25,000), a number too hideous to contemplate, and think of the size of the space you'd need to search before such a number would be found just based on probability. So if we found such a thing, we either beat bazillion^bazillion-to-one odds, or we found something that was left there for us. Interesting.
Actually, base converting Pi in to Base 11 is actually pretty damn EASY.
Here is the number
3.1415926535897932384626433832795
3 in Base 11 = 3
Now the rest is simple.
Multiply 0.1415926535897932384626433832795 by 11
Take the number past to the left of the decimal point and use this as your first digit of Base 11 Pi. In this case it is = 1.
Subtract that number and multiply by 11 again.
The number you get is 6.
Now if you Wash - Rinse - Repeat you'll arrive at the number in Base 11 (3.16150702865A485235215...)
Pretty simple? You can do this quickly with other bases without hitting negative powers of the base number. You can also convert a number in another base quickly using the technique from my earlier post in this Slashdot chat. The trick is to convert your target base number into the base that you're converting from. It works for all decimals just like RADIX works for all integers. Do a find for "matrix29" on this page and you'll hit my previous post right off.
You can also convert to non-integer bases (ergo Base 7.886) but the method is a tad more awkward.
Pi-level compression my friend.
They keep taking pi out so damned far to see if it contains all possible patterns of numbers (which is a lot). Since its irrationial its possible and if we convert these 1.4 trillion places into binary then we can start and stop at any point along the way and have stuff. then instead of sending a binary package out to somebody, you can give them where to stop and start along the path, of course that number may be larger than what you want to send, but it'd still be cool.
Now before any one starts screaming "COUNTING ARGUEMENT" and "PIGEONHOLE PRINCIPALS" I would like to mention to the crowd that although Pi is indeed finite, any number of irrationals or transcendentals used as dictionary sets can do this very thing. Pi alone cannot be used for efficent dictionary transmission compression (using two identical dictionarys on two computers and citing the page number and word number in place of sending the word itself and gaining speed by the reduced data requirements in transmission), BUT using the cube root of 2 and the Golden Ratio and perhaps any number of precalculated numbers will allow huge shortcuts in data transmission (it is not perfect, but still a workable method for more rapid data transmission).
Result = HEX (0.ACE) = DEC (0.675537109375)
.AC
By the way, to verify that I'm not pulling this out of my ass, just multiply DEC (0.675537109375) by 16.
DEC (0.675537109375)* 16 = 10.80859375
Subtract the 10 and convert 10 to HEX =
Now take 0.80859375 = 12.9375
Convert 12 to HEX = 0.AC and subtract from the number.
Multiply 0.9375 * 16 = 15
That gives us a decimal number in HEX of 0.ACE
SWEET ???
I play with non-integer decimal bases and have to find shortcuts to speedy math.
I just figured I'd follow up on that for the people who thought my numbers just whizzed over their heads.
There is a pattern to pi in Hex. There is a well known equation to calculate the digits of pie in hex (im sure google [google.com] knows). Of course converting it to decimal requires you to add smaller and smaller fractions of 16^n, so it doesnt get you anywhere.
.99 .3663)
Actually there is a trick that speeds things up somewhat in base converting from decimals.
Take the number 0.57 (Base 10) and convert that to (Base 7). Here is the routine.
0.57 * 7 = 3.99
Your first digit is 3 and your converted number begins 0.3
Now subtract 3 from 3.99 to get
Now multiply by 7
0.99 * 7 = 6.93
Now your number is 0.36
(Get the pattern? It is the opposite of RADIX conversion)
Wash - Rinse - Repeat to get 0.366336633663... (or a repeat of
Okay. Now we begin converting HEX to Base 10. You have to convert your multiplier into the Base you're converting to. So you multiply the Hexdecimal Pi by "A" and your result will be in HEX base. Wash - Rinse - Repeat.
For example.
Take HEX (0.ACE) * A = HEX (6.C16)
(and you multiply the number and convert back to HEX. For example 6 * A = 60 which converts into HEX 3C, carry the 3, multiply A * 1 = 10 + 3 =
13, convert 13 to HEX and get "D", multiply A * C = 120, convert to HEX to get 78. That is how I arrived at the multiplication results below).
(All numbers following are in HEX)
A * 0.C16 = 7.8DC
A * 0.8DC = 5.898
A * 0.898 = 5.5F
A * 0.5F = 3.B6
A * 0.B6 = 7.1C
A * 0.1C = 1.18
A * 0.18 = 0.F
A * 0.F = 9.6
A * 0.6 = 3.C
A * 0.C = 7.8
A * 0.8 = 5
Result = HEX (0.ACE) = DEC (0.675537109375)
It actually is astoundingly simple to base convert decimals this way. To do the reverse, just divide the decimals.
Yeah!! Look what the internet did to the porn industry!
Seriously.. You'd think Hollywood could learn a thing or two from the XXX industry. Look how mainstream it became via the internet. Hard to understand why they don't see it as the powerful distrobution vehicle it could be.
I mean if you distributed 100% more copies of , why fight so hard because 5% of them are pirated? Mo money, mo money mo money. You don't see vivid video fighting to shut down distribution of their films.
Most of it is stolen from each other, or other places.
Don't belive me check out those so called sites that use "Adult varification." 99% of their anime stuff they provide is stolen.
Uh and the PROBLEM IS???
Porn is profitable by ARTIFICIAL SCARCITY. There are laws requiring Adult Verification (the first piece of the profit margin which encourages production) and once inside the sites if you see something stolen (the second part of the profit margin - near free supply) from somebody else you still are getting your bucks worth.
Hell, I could take naked pictures of myself and so long as it doesn't hurt my steady job, it becomes easy money. To quoth the comedian, "Just strap a web cam to your dildo and BANG! You're an international internet porn star." Very low cost of entry (joke intended) and a steady churn of new images available.
Imagine the movie industry realizing that cable TV can bring in customers and they profit well to boot! NAPSTER (before it got RIAA-ASSRAPED) was the best thing to hit the CD industry. The RIAA IS CHOCK FULL OF ABSOLUTE MORONS! If I don't hear the songs I don't buy the songs. NAPSTER was akin to radio music broadcasts BUT the user gets to choose what they listen to.
Since I've pretty much boycotted the RIAA (and CD buying) COMPLETELY BECAUSE OF THE RIAA's ACTIONS they haven't gotten more than $10 from me in the past 2 years. That's ALL THEIR FAULT. Piracy in this case was their best promotion method and it was FREE ADVERTISING. Now the RIAA wants to cram their idea of what I should buy down my throat and I vomit in their faces. Sure I still am buying things, DVDs & computer games & stuff for my home & car (about $8000 worth over the past year) but I refuse completely to fund the RIAA-ASSHOLES.
As the saying goes, "Share the wealth smartly and it will come back to you twofold."
Actors and puppets are much more realistic and engaging and inexpensive than computer animation, and make for a better movie, but that doesn't stop Lucas from overspending on CG.
(Rubs hands greedily)
Aha, now to pitch my idea of a all-Muppet remake of David Lynch's DUNE movie. The time is ripe.
(Starts evil cackling)
You dont need to copy it. Just use something non permiable to coat the edge of the disk. Something like finger nail polish might work. That way air can't get to it.
Or you could just strip off the metallic layer and recoat it with a shiny metallic coat.
This is how you make horrible things happen: propose something truly nasty, and let users and techies make a huge fuss about it. Then back down from the worst practice due to "customer input" and simply go forward without the top 5% of the bad stuff. Now MS has implemented 95% of their bad stuff, but techies and consumers don't mind because they've now Made a Difference.
And the simple answer is, "Just DO NOT BUY - DO NOT BUY - MICROSOFT CRAPWARE - Don't feed the MONSTER."
It is the only sure way to slay The Beast. Do not reward evil works with good money.
Perhaps Google should countersue SearchKing for spamming Google's customers. It probably won't win, but would drain resources from SpamKing, I mean SearchKing.
Or just block them and their related sites out cold. They wouldn't be the first ISP to do it.
Listing of Domains Denied Mail Access @NRCDXAS.ORG
Listing of Domains Denied Mail Access @NRCDXAS.ORG
The following domains have been placed in our "deny" file. This is due to mail abuses that they have not addressed. Mail abuses can be the sending of spam, virus, abusive e-mail to participants in a list or private address, or severe misconduct by a user. When this happens the domain is contacted. If they a) do not correct the problem, or b) do not acknowledge the problem, then they are placed on the deny list.
If you are the owner of one of these domains, and you wish to be removed from this list, you must pay the $50.00 administrative fee for having to clean up your users problem, and take corrective action to prevent further abuse. Please do not contact me unless you are willing to pay the fee and make reasonable security contacts with complaints filed.
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202. @searchking.com
203. @securetrader.org
204. @seventwentyfour.com
205. @sexyfun.net
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And if anyone is interested here is an interview with the shyster by another shyster website
Pagerank Interview with Bob Massa
PageRank For Sale
Exclusive interview with SearchKing / PR Ad Network's Robert Massa.
SearchKing has started selling text ads on its network of independent portals, with prices based on Google PageRank. Jono Craig asks Robert Massa of SearchKing if he really believes he can get away with it.
By Jono Craig, 24 August 2002
Like any other business, we have expenses. Employees, servers, bandwidth, rent and utilities. Let's not forget the taxes too. All these expenses have to paid and we are able to pay them through the revenues we receive from advertisers. People who want YOU as their customers.
I refuse to believe this operation is anything more than Bob Massa sitting in his parents' basement. Every piece of content on his web site was written by him. That's a busy CEO...
The "Staff" of Magic City.com
We'd like you to be able to get to know the people who will be working on your placement. We have a staff of 8 people and each of these people play a specific and crucial role in our clients success. We also have several people that we contract out to build your promotional domain.
BOB
The BOSS.
e-mail: bobking@searchking.com
Robert (Bob) Massa has over 25 years experience in sales, advertising and marketing; marketing online since April '96.
2nd E-mail: bobcard@ionet.net
Picture not yet available
DAN
PROGRAMER
Dan Kavanaugh came all the way from Montana to make himself a member of the Magic-City family. He is an expert programmer. He has been working with code for many years and has even designed his own computer game.
E-mail: dan@searchking.com
ROBERT LARSON
Systems Admin.
Robert joined us in June 1st of 2002. Responsiblities include network and server management. Responsible for installling, configuring and troubleshooting.
E-mail: karma0@spyring.com
KATHI
Office Manager
One of the best award winning website designers in the business. Over 1,000 web pages to her credit. Kathi is also in charge of accounts payable and affiliate management.
E-mail: kathi@craftmax.com
KEVIN
Data Specialist
Kevin Anderson is an incredible asset to our company as he is a highly successful search engine placement professional. He is responsible for tech support and installation.
E-mail: kevin@searchking.com
RONDA
Search Engine Specialist
Ronda has been with our company since 1999. She has an outstanding success record in placing promotional domains in the top of the search engines.
E-mail: ronda@searchking.com
YVONNE
(MOM KING)
She has gone back to being just MOM!
Hope you enjoy your time off.
CONTRACT WEB DESIGNERS
Picture not yet available
MIKE R
Web Designer
We have been using Mike Rotter's services for web site design for over a year. He can build a web site for placement in the search engines with incredible results.
E-mail: mjr@reddingcal.com
Or this page of employees
Sad to think that companies like ALTAVISTA, HOTBOT, NORTHERN LIGHT, YAHOO, and others were pretty much ruined in an all out assault on their search techinques by this Bob Massa goon. They should be SUING HIM for his actions.
Registrant:
SearchKing, Inc.
13601 Quiet Cove
McLoud, OK 74851
US
405-386-4805
Fax:405-386-4806
Domain Name: SEARCHKING.COM
Administrative Contact:
Massa, Bob bobking@searchking.com
13601 Quiet Cove
McLoud, OK 74851
US
405-386-4805
Fax:405-386-4806
Let us drop [ "Bob Massa" ] into GOOGLE and see what we find...
Bob Massa the Bulk Spammer
[ a bit down the webpage ]
Who's spamming, and does it work?
Bulk e-mail can be effective, but it's not always worth the trouble it can cause the sender. Bob Massa, owner of Magic-City.Net, an Oklahoma City, Okla., company that helps other organizations increase Web traffic by submitting their URLs to search engines, used to send out bulk e-mail to advertise his service. "It was more effective than anything else I've known," he says. "When I started, I was sending 30,000 messages a night and getting about a 1 percent response rate. There were times when I got as many as 200 orders in one day."
So why did Massa quit? Because "it's no longer worth it," he says. "Anti-spammers were sending me mail bombs, hacking my site and harassing me. One irate person sent me snail mail saying that he had mailed me a pregnant venomous spider and hoped it would bite someone and cause serious injury or death."
Calvin Fuller, a Burlingame, Calif.-based entrepreneur, has had similar experiences. Fuller has been involved with several Internet businesses and is developing an online and print magazine called Bikini Models, which he describes as a "PG-rated publication that includes pictures of bikini-clad models."
During the past couple of years, Fuller has used spam extensively but has backed off lately for a number of reasons, including the reactions he got from some recipients. "For every person who is excited about what I'm promoting, I'll hear from a lot more people who take the same amount of time to say how they are annoyed."
Fuller is also having trouble finding ISPs that will let him send bulk e-mail. "Most of the major providers of bulk e-mail-friendly accounts have shut down because other ISPs will block their incoming traffic."
Massa's and Fuller's tales of the treatment they received from anti-spammers were echoed by almost everyone I interviewed who had used spam to market products and services. Onsale Inc., a Menlo Park, Calif.-based public company that holds Web auctions, experimented with bulk e-mail but soon dropped it, according to Michelle Pettigrew, vice president of business development. Onsale used software to crawl the EBay Inc. auction site to pick up about 20,000 names and e-mail addresses.
Although Onsale received a significant number of positive inquiries as a result of its mailings, the company also got a lot of negative comment from EBay, Pettigrew says. In general, the potential for backlash is too great. "There are," Pettigrew adds, "ways to reach those customers through other means--such as banner ads--that are nontoxic."
The reaction against spam has been so strong that even people who use subscription-based lists sometimes get angry letters. I know because I'm one of them. I operate a free mailing list for people interested in following the articles I post to my Web site, www. larrysworld.com. The only way to get on the mailing list is to subscribe, but I've still received a number of angry letters from people who apparently forgot they had subscribed. For a while, a temporary glitch in my software failed to remove people who had asked to be deleted, resulting in several letters threatening legal action or requesting that ISPs block all mail from my account. Most people graciously accepted my apology, but a few remained angry.
[ more on the web page ]
A pic of Bob Massa
Bob also owns Searchking, Inc., a unique concept in search engine services which has been online since 1997 and is continuing to grow through a strategy of providing hosted search service software to the public. In a little over one year Searchking has become the largest "portal" host in the world with over 1,000 online portals on it's servers.
Yeah, I can see him as a large "portal" (www.goatse.cx)
But we only need look at his personal webpage
http://www.bobmassa.com/
A bit of truth even from Bob Massa's lips
As the engine has become celebrated for taking users directly to the information they want, though, a question has emerged in the minds of internet entrepreneurs who are no longer the recipients of millions of easy dollars: could it be manipulated for much-needed profit? One of Google's advantages has always been its refusal to sell placements in its rankings to the highest bidder, but the PageRank system, some argue, has its loopholes. Because Google measures how many pages link to a site, what if you set up thousands of web pages solely for the purpose of linking to one commercial site?
Some have accused Bob Massa, proprietor of a "search optimisation" service called Searchking, of doing just that. "All I want is for webmasters with small sites to get rewarded fairly," he says. "This is a chance to see that those guys get visitors and put up good content. Google wants good content. I can't see any problem."
You twirp! How dare you call her Ms. Coulter. Its Mr. Ann Coulter to you, Max Vlast. Mr. Coulter recieved her J.D. from University of Michigan Law School; which I doubt if any slashdot reader has a Doctorate. You can read more about Dr. Ann Coulter from her biography [SlutsGoneInsane.com].
As to your question, I doubt that Mr. Coulter is the promiscuous type. She is a conservative and therefore she is Right. She would never gave premarital sex, unlike most leftists who can't recognize morals even if it smacked them upside the head.
She/He is a LANKY SKANKY NUTTY SLUTTY IGNORANT WHORE with one wasted existence to pass himself/herself off as a woman. She/He reminds me of those reptile people on the TV series "V". Cold-blooded and always spitting venom.
Nice Adam's Apple for a "woman"?
What about this one? Nice "Crazy Eyes" there Mr./Mrs. LANKY SKANKY.
Ann "LANKY SKANKY" Coulter is a perfect example of the "Seduction of the Ignorant" crowd that fuels the rancid Criminal Republican Criminal Party Criminals and their twisted anti-American spew which regularly is vomited up on one of their many televised "happy to be retarded" love-fests. I see every Ann "LANKY SKANKY" Coulter appearance as yet another parade of a gaunt shemale which titillates the Rancid Criminal Republican Party while ENRON, WORLDCOM, & CHOICEPOINT robs those empty-dittoheads and their suffering children (suffering the torment of ignorant worthless parents who cheer Criminal Traitor Fraud President George Worthless Bush on while he robs them blind. These perverse demented Criminal Republican Criminals ought to be charged with child abuse for forcing these unfortunate children born to mentally defective washouts while they masturbate frantically to images of a shemale viper.
She/He says the National Review only paid him/her $5 a month for her column. The National Review was ripped off by the spindly stupid slut for his/her constant bimbo-burps she claims to fame.
Frankly I consider the LANKY SKANKY random word vomiter as most likely too scary for even Charles Manson (though those "Crazy Eyes" show even Squeaky Frome is a tame nutball compared to LANKY SKANKY).
Hey, maybe we'd see a return to the old 50's-style shiny chrome aircraft!
You mean old 50's-style shiny RED chrome aircraft.
If the aircraft is the color of the beam color then most of the beam will also be reflected. Refer to the RINGWORLD books if you're curious as a red shirt being hit by a red beam equals zero effect.
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Question: How many Internet mailing list subscribers does it take to change a light bulb?
Answer: 1374.
1 to change the light bulb and to post to the mailing list that the light bulb has been changed, 14 to share similar experiences of changing light bulbs and how the light bulb could have been changed differently, 7 to caution about the dangers of changing light bulbs, 27 to point out spelling errors in posts about changing light bulbs, 53 to flame the spell checkers, 41 to correct spelling in the spelling flames, 156 to write to the list administrator complaining about the light bulb discussion and its inappropriateness to this mailing list, 109 to post that this list is not about light bulbs and to please take this e-mail exchange to another list, 203 to demand that cross posting to other lists about changing light bulbs be stopped, 111 to defend the posting to this list saying that we all use light bulbs and therefore the posts _are_ relevant to this mailing list, 309 to debate which method of changing light bulbs is superior, where to buy the best light bulbs, what brand of light bulbs work best for this technique, and what brands are not so good, 27 to post web addresses where one can see examples of different light bulbs, 14 to post that the web addresses were posted incorrectly, and to post corrected ones, 33 to concatenate all posts to date, then quote them including all headers and footers, and then add 'Me Too!', 12 to post to the list that they are unsubscribing because they cannot handle the light bulb controversy, 19 to quote the 'Me Toos' to say, 'Me Three!', 4 to suggest that posters request the light bulb FAQ, 48 to propose new <change.lite.bulb> newsgroup, 47 to say there is already an <alt.light.bulb> newsgroup, 143 to ask if anyone ever did change the light bulb. Friday, May 31. Back in June!
Okay, I had to Karma Whore just for the sake of it (sad when we define the nature of the reposter).
There are more than a few explanations for that, I hate New Scientist, they jump to conclusions too often in an effort to drum up interest in their articles.
Or just to play head games with people for laughs. Eggs are good for you today and now they're bad for you again and now they're good for you again. Confusing isn't it?
And of course The ONION's take on this whimsy science... From FussyMonkey.COM (a wonderful archive of "The ONION RADIO NEWS")
http://www.fussymonkey.com/orn/
Snickering
Researchers Say Dog Urine Lowers The Risk Of Heart Disease
that with his books containing the content that they do, Stephen King manages to die every single day here on slashdot. hmm, i wonder if he gets all of his ideas from doing this.
Well, Bill Gates was shot on December 2, 1999.
http://www.billgatesisdead.com/
So I guess Stephen King felt left out (or is doing a bit of self-advertising to keep his name in heavy circulation).
Balony there was less vote fraud in 2000 then in 1996 then in 1992.... Florida is a pretty clean state in terms of fraud and given the microscopic level of detail there is very little evidence of fraud. If there was known rampant votor fraud who has been indicted for it?
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Why certainly, and of course we can blissfully ignore Katherine Harris (the hideous clown-woman) hiring CHOICEPOINT to illegally disqualify 8000 legitimate voters (even going so far as to claim people were felons arrested in 2007)with a 95% error rate (which is in itself shameless fraud which CHOICEPOINT should be prosecuted and shut down for).
And if we blissfully ignore that the "spoiled ballots" were double-punched by a IBM card puncher (remember the LONG DELAYS on the "machine recount") to punch a certain amount of each independant candidate on valid GORE ballots while optical scan ballots very rarely were spoiled.
http://www.geocities.com/redflagsinflorida/irre
Should I also remind people of the double absentee ballots sent overseas and James Baker claiming the absentee Israel voters would tilt the election to Gore so Baker claimed we should intially reject the overseas votes until the ballot fix was in.
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/09/
Florida sent duplicate ballots overseas
Defense Department employee alleges that some co-workers on an air base in
England voted twice.
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By Carina Chocano
Nov. 9, 2000 | At least five Florida residents serving at a U.S. Air Force base in England received two absentee ballots for this year's hotly contested presidential race, a civilian Department of Defense employee told Salon. Elaine Gatley, 48, a civil service executive secretary stationed at RAF Mildenhall in southeastern England, said Thursday that she and four fellow Floridians who work in her office received two ballots in the mail from the state of Florida.
"At first I thought it was just a fluke," Gatley said. "But when I went to work the next day, I talked to my friends and they said, 'Yeah, I received two also.'"
Gatley, a registered Democrat, completed and returned only one of the ballots she received. But she said that at least three of her fellow Floridians, all of whom are registered Republican, told her that they filled out and returned the second ballots as well.
"These people thought there was something wrong with the original ballot," said Gatley, who is married to an Air Force serviceman. "They just sent the second ballot in, thinking maybe something was wrong."
The duplicate ballots were mailed from election offices in at least three Florida counties -- Santa Rosa, Osceola and Hillsborough -- according to Gatley. The multiple ballots were sent to registered Democrats, as well as Republicans, she said.
"But the majority of overseas military people are Republicans," added Gatley. "It's usually the spouses, you know, the civilians, who are Democrats."
One of Gatley's Republican co-workers at the Air Force base confirmed to Salon that she had received two ballots from Florida. She requested that her name not be used.
According to Gatley, the majority of the base's staff comes from Florida. Gatley was formerly employed at Eglin Air Force Base near Navarre, Fla.
No one from other states with whom she spoke at Milden received more than one absentee ballot, said Gatley.
According to a Florida Elections Board official, it's common for counties to send out sample ballots before mailing the official absentee ballot. The sample should be clearly labeled, said the official, who requested anonymity.
The official also said that if someone sends in two ballots, election officials simply void one of them, not both.
But told of this comment, Gatley said she could discern no difference between the two ballots she received, nor could her co-workers. She said neither ballot was clearly marked as a sample.
Absentee ballots are still being counted in the controversial Florida race. Officials say the final absentee tally might not be completed for another eight or nine days. With George W. Bush clinging to a razor-thin lead in the Florida recount, the absentee-ballot tabulation has taken on critical importance.
http://www.salon.com/politics/feature/2000/11/1
Nov. 13, 2000 | While the nation focuses on several southeast Florida counties where election officials are struggling to come up with an accurate vote count from last Tuesday's presidential election, another brush fire is burning upstate in solidly Republican Duval County. There, an extraordinary number of discarded ballots are also at issue, and Democrats are crying foul.
Of the 292,000 votes cast in Duval County, nearly 9 percent, or 27,000, were nullified. "Overvoting," punching holes for more than one candidate, caused 22,000 votes to be tossed, while 5,000 were voided because voters didn't choose anyone, known as "undervoting." Machines tabulating the vote automatically spit those out.
Over the weekend, several prominent Republicans, such as GOP chairman Jim Nicholson and Rep. Tillie Fowler, R-Fla., pointed to the 22,000 nullified votes in Duval County as proof that the practice is common. They suggested that even though Bush would have benefited if there had been a hand recount in the county, which he won 152,000-107,000, they were not complaining about the process. "These things happen in elections," stressed Nicholson on CNN.
Truth is, Democrats are the ones outraged about Duval. They're angry because close to half the voided ballots -- nearly 12,000 votes -- came from just four of Duval County's 14 city districts. The four districts cover predominantly African-American areas of Jacksonville, where Vice President Al Gore won handily.
Duval County did not use the controversial "butterfly ballot," yet the number of voters apparently confused skyrocketed this year. In 1992, a combined 6,000 over- and undervotes were discarded in Duval County, and 7,500 were thrown out during the '96 presidential election, according to local officials. This year's jump to 27,000 represented 8.9 percent of all votes cast in the county, compared with 2 and 3 percent in the previous presidential tallies in Duval. Nationally, the percentage of presidential ballots discarded for under- and overvoting runs between 1.0 and 1.8 percent, according to Curtis Gans, director of the Committee for Study of the American Electorate.
What's so unusual, according to election experts such as Bob Naegele, who certifies voting machines for the Federal Election Commission, is that the normal rate of overvoting when punch-card ballots are used is roughly 0.1 percent. In Duval County last Tuesday, the rate ballooned to 7.5 percent. Even in Palm Beach County, where some residents say confusion reigned on Election Day and 29,000 ballots were dismissed, the overvote rate climbed to only 4.1 percent.
http://www.yorkdispatch.com/elec2000/001128b.ht
Though the ballot applications already had been rejected and placed in a warehouse, Goard's staff members fetched the Republican postcards out of storage and placed them in a separate box for the GOP representatives. More than 4,500 ballot applications were corrected and ballots were sent to those Republican voters. It is unclear how many of those absentee ballots were returned as votes.
Some Democratic ballot applications also apparently arrived without some of the required information, but they were thrown out and Democrats were not provided the same opportunity to make them comply, Democratic attorneys say.
At one time you could write Woz and ask him yourself, but he's a bit swamped [woz.org] at the moment. You might want to read his answers to other letters [woz.org] to see if the answer is there. Uh, when will he open up his webpage? I have tried to open the URL with Internet Explorer (The page cannot be displayed) & Mozilla (connection refused) and the page simply will not load. I can see the page content with GOOGLE cache, but nowhere else. Frankly this is sad behavior from the comedic genius behind the Mac (and much more valueable than that smirking nitwit Steve Jobs).
The point of making it smaller is so there's less current flow, and thus less heat. Granted, they'll pack more in, so the overall effect will probably be more heat generation, but per transistor, smaller ones do generate less heat.
You are right though. The smaller they make them the more they'll pack in. Without some kind of active cooling system in the chip the thing will glow like a hotplate.
"The star that burns twice as bright burns half as long." - Bladerunner (the movie, not the 1974 book about a renegade surgeon that performs operations and smuggles medical supplies in a world where medical care is free only if you submit to castration after the Earth was plagued by a lethal spinal meningitis flu. It involves the concept of a national healthcare system overwhelmed by a viral outbreak and the problem of skyrocketing costs to the nation and a eugenics shortcut to cut corners). GOOGLE up [ "Alan Nourse" "Bladerunner" ] or [ "Alan Nourse" "Blade Runner" ] to understand.