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  1. Re:What is the case about? on Oregon Supreme Court Declines To Hear Schwartz Case · · Score: 1

    >>No, the Constitution keeps authority in the hands of the citizens. Unfortunately, most people do not exercise their authority when the time to do so comes around.

    >>Many people do not vote and there are many more people who do don't make use of their right to assemble and protest. Of those who do vote, most vote not for the candidate they feel is idealogically aligned with themselves, but with the guy they think will win.

    I might not agree with your last line. That happens just to be the difference of our thinking.

    The rest of your text is correct. I've never seen many people care about anything within my community unless it's directly affecting them ( and in some cases not even if it's right next door)

    example: We had a landlord within our community that had 2 family homes, within each home he had split the home into 4 families, Which happens to be illegal. I did my research, found the homes to be in violation and reported it to the town.

    Now some people are screeming why, well a few reasons.

    1) I pay a huge amount of taxes ( 5 digits) for my 50' x 100' property's ( 2 family's ). I dereive an income from them. I pay the taxes respective to the value of my property ( 2 families are cheaper in taxes than 3 families and there are no 4 families within the areas that I buy). He was not paying his prorated share of taxes.

    2) Parking nightmares, most landlords within my community provide garage parking so that the streets are somewhat clear ( you can park infront of your house or maybe 2 cars away when some's having a party). This was not the case, and that's how I found out about this landlord due to bad parking on one of my homes block.

    3) property values, when homeowners abuse these types of zoning laws it affects everyone.

    Now I found all these homes, reported each one. I got thanks from all the people that lived near each one of these homes. Now, when I asked them why they did not do anything about it. They said they did not want to get involved.

    Well the only thanks I got that counted was that my properties that were directly affected from this have maintained their value and my tenants have street parking when they need it.

    Onepoint

    p.s. way off topic. Is there enough demand for fully wired apartments yet ?

  2. Re:Is IRC going into a commercial future? on Oldest IRC Server Going Offline · · Score: 1

    I would like to say that you are lucky. I'm on Road Runner and they scan the networks every now and then. If they find a server they will notify you and then boot you off on the second warning if you continue.

    Best of luck and I hope you continue.

    Onepoint

  3. Re:A better question on Is Hacking Cars a Thing of the Past? · · Score: 1

    Yes it's a load os trash,
    this is how you do it:
    1 Rubber mallet

    place mallet into 1 hand and strike the top (and front) of the stearing wheel at the same time use your other hand to move the wheel, you only move it to the next click.

    Onepoint

  4. Re:One fix . . . on Distributed Spam Detection · · Score: 1

    Real good idea, but the goal is to prevent the spam from ever reaching the users box. If you start to add on a qualifier of reports submitted then ( i think ) a delay occurs. I think I like the idea of peer trust better because in the long run I would be able to filter out the abusers.

    -onepoint

  5. Re:So... on Distributed Spam Detection · · Score: 1

    >>Why would people mess up one of the few effective lines of defense.

    No offense, People might get pissed off at someone and effectively kill that persons e-mail capabilities .

    Now do I like the idea, Yes very much so. I was always hoping for something like this. I can see the effectiveness of a well patroled spam mail catcher.

    I wish the developement team best of luck.

    -onepoint

  6. Re:Might I recommend webcriteria.com? on Homepage Usability · · Score: 1

    >>I suggest you all go to the W3 validator and test you web pages so that they conform to a HTML standard.

    I might be dumb about this. But when I create web pages ( nothing to complex I'm still new at this ), I try to make them Bobby compliant. Is this just as good ?

    ONEPOINT

  7. Re:Trashed Here on Linux 2.4.16 Released · · Score: 1

    >>So stop with the "did you do a backup" thing

    No way, Back-ups are the only thing that will protect you in the long run. And I'll be the first to tell you that I hate doing them. But I'm happy that I do. Last Febuary my system crashed ( hard drive failure ) . The only way to recover and get back up to speed was to go out and buy a drive and spend the next 11 hours restoring, reconfigurating and a hole buch on other stuff.

    I lost 5 days of productivity on that crash ( 7 people entering data all week long ). That was a very costly mistake ( I was backing up weekly on sunday's ) Now I'm daily and using a "somewhat" better back-up platform, now it's only 3 tapes per backup instead of 14 tapes.

  8. reading on Science Fiction into Science Fact? · · Score: 1

    Well, laugh all you want but read Analog. it's 7 to 20 years ahead of it's time. The possible stuff written becomes reality about on average 12 -14 years from publishing.

    Sad thing is that in 1987 to 90 analog was writing alot about cloning. Things are comming true.

    my collection stems from 1980. I now fear the laws about cloning.

    -onepoint

  9. Re:Trashed Here on Linux 2.4.16 Released · · Score: 1

    I would cry. then I would start the "nasty restore"

  10. Re:Trashed Here on Linux 2.4.16 Released · · Score: 1

    Ouch that must have hurt. 24 gigs. But, you really did have a back up. Everyone knows that you don't do the updates for a while if your system is critical.

    Onepoint

  11. Re:Er! Not quite on Exposing Spammers For All They're Worth · · Score: 1

    I'm sorry for the delay here is the code

    <!-- Spam Buster
    Many "Email-Harvesting" programs steal email accounts from mailto: tags in your
    web page html source. Using this method will prevent these programs from
    stealing your email address, simply change the username and domainname to
    your email address username and domain name.
    -->

    <SCRIPT LANGUAGE="Javascript">
    // Change User Name and Domain Name
    username="yourname"
    at="@"
    domainname="emailserver.com"
    document.write("<A HREF='mailto:"+username+""+at+""+domainname+"'>"+u sername+""+at+""+domainname+"</a>")
    </script>

  12. Re:nothing new here just a side note on Libraries Asked To Destroy Reports, Databases · · Score: 1

    >>fact that more than 1 million square feet were taken off the market that day

    WTC had more than 1 million square feet closer to 10 million rentable. please see http://www.greatbuildings.com/buildings/World_Trad e_Center.html

    And you are correct downtown has leveled off and the hope is that it will start rising.

    -Onepoint

  13. Re:send your spam to the FTC on Exposing Spammers For All They're Worth · · Score: 1

    Just a note, most good spam software has a built in feature to prevent you from spamming the .GOV also you can add certain addresses to their filters.

    -Onepoint

  14. Re:Er! Not quite on Exposing Spammers For All They're Worth · · Score: 2

    >>I do have a website and the whole idea is to publish my contact information, with as little hassle as possible for prospects.

    I have a small javascript that might help you. If you like I will post it.

    -Onepoint

  15. Re:Actually what about... on USNA "Budget" Satellite Launched and Functioning · · Score: 1

    I was watching the history channel this week and they had super guns on them. Their was a claim that a gun made recently hit an altitude of 112 miles and had a range of 220 miles. this was a 8 inch shell

    Onepoint

  16. Re:Proof on USNA "Budget" Satellite Launched and Functioning · · Score: 1

    >>payload cost on the shuttle is $5000 per pound. not 1,000,000 per launch.

    Can you please post a link to this cost. I find it very interesting that the cost are being quoted on a LBS. basis versus a volume-weight (in air frieght it's call volumetric) rate.

    Why I ask, example 1 pound of feathers would take up more space(or volume) than 1 pound of computers in normal situations.

    Onepoint

  17. Re:You used to own it? on Filing a Domain Name Dispute? · · Score: 1

    There are many domain names within Network solution that they have held on to. I've been trying to get them for some time.

    Onepoint

  18. Re:Be Careful... on Adding Functionality to Digital Cable Boxes? · · Score: 1

    this link might be of some little help but it does give a small guild about different boxes and associated application made for the box.
    I hope this helps

    http://www.etvcookbook.org/system/platform.html

    Onepoint

  19. Re:Alan Cox is doing the right thing on The 2.5 Kernel Tree And Alan Cox · · Score: 2

    >>>While AC has done a great job of judging the priorities of the Linux community as a whole over the priorities of Red hat, there is still the question of how much his employeement at RH effects him.

    >>This has absolutely nothing to do with Alan's employment at Redhat, don't be silly.
    Furthermore, it has nothing to do with politics.

    Are you sure about that? As a business owner, I would do whatever it takes, to have one of the top ten names of a very specific field under my employment. And if that person see's my vision then I in!

    Hell, I believe that Mr. Cox is pushed ( ever so gently ) in the Red Hat direction. He might not even know it.

    Business being business, he will have to cross certain lines, and a paycheck in this environment is worth a lot more than a minor code change.

    I hope I'm wrong about Mr. Cox

    -onepoint

  20. Re:Duh... one other point to add on Are DVDs Software Or Films? · · Score: 1

    Wow I did not know that, 1 import tax rate for most products. that's very interesting. ( I had imports from Australia mostly wine and meats, each had their own tax rate and in japan it was the same thing, a specific tax rate ). I have heard that in europe CD's (new) could have 2 types of import tax rates depending if they had different capacities.

    thank you for the insight,

    Onepoint

  21. Re:Duh... one other point to add on Are DVDs Software Or Films? · · Score: 1

    One other point to add is the tax ramifications.

    Each item that is imported has a specific tax section in the code, and will taxed according to that code. Now I don't know what will get hit harder but there should be a difference between the import tax rate for video and software ( both on DVD )

    -Onepoint

  22. Re:World War II Online on Making Strategy Games with...Strategy? · · Score: 1

    Interesting that you ask. I came about this fact when I was in southern jersey ( just 20 south of camden) looking at some land about 10 years ago. Found this little monument on the property. 65 confederate killed ... did some research later on it ( I thought I could buy the land then resell at a profit to the government). Seems like a force of 600 came into town, took cows, flour, and other food stuff. paid in confederate notes and were shot at, all in their march. The marker is one of their camp sites.

    -Onepoint

  23. Re:Serious prediction question: on Teragrid: Massive Grid Computing · · Score: 1

    well lets see, now = 750 pc's
    in 1.5 years = 375 pc's
    in 3 years = 188 pc's
    in 4.5 years = 94's
    in 6 years = 47 pc's
    in 7.5 years =24 pc's
    in 9 years = 12 pc's

    so ten years out nope but close enough for me.

    -Onepoint

  24. Re:World War II Online on Making Strategy Games with...Strategy? · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Not only are you correct about the "choke points and supply lines", you should also mention the work that helps the supply lines "logistics support".

    In fact most major battles of land war have been lost due to "bad" logistics.

    IE: moscow, nazi tanks needed huge tons of fuel and fighter aircraft were used for bombing ( no 4 engine bomber ), Normandy, nazi did not move the troops fast enough to stop the advance. The german advances in the "battle of the Bulge" Where, logistical failure kept the nazi's from fully advancing ( troops ran out of ammo and some troops ran out of fuel )

    The supply /convoy routes to england were a great example of logistics at it best from both sides.

    the USA carrier support fleets in the Pacific Ocean, Always on a full tank of petrol.

    In the american civil war, Confederate troops made it all the way to NJ, but the supply lines were not well defended and they had to pull out.

    -ONEPOINT

  25. Re:what makes this interesting on Mega-DVDs -- 100GB Apiece · · Score: 1

    >>"50megs per side," eh? Holy Toledo this is big!

    I'm sorry I ment 50 gigs per side.

    Onepoint