I've had a similar situation, and in my case I secured the alternates, but realized that the one they squated on would be more likely entered by people just trying to type it in.
I didn't want to build THEIR GoogleAd/Spyware potential with my name.
Patience is a virtue. They started at $5K! and after almost a year of telling them what they could do with their offers (they sent me another message every other month or so) I was tired one day and raised my "don't even contact me if it's not under" from $50 to $100. The next day I got an invoice!
I used a one-use virtual credit card (come on, I'm not stupid) and paid for it. 2 days later the change over completed and I spent a couple more bucks to transfer away from this unknown (to me) registrar the next day.
More than I wanted to spend, but worth the future problems I hope would come if my product becomes succesful.:)
What I find more annoying is the people that tell me I need to sell them one of my active domains because they want it. Are they spambots that are not even looking at the site, or do they just hope I'm stupid?
General speaking, objects of 6 magnitude and brighter (lower) are considered visible to the naked eye. This object would presumably be MUCH more visible with a good pair of binoculars which gets you down into the 9 magnitude range.
If your going to be viewing with the naked eye, let your eyes get accustomed to the darkness for a bit first and eat some carrots the night before.;) More importantly, if you live downtown, good luck, you might not be able to see through the light (or other) polution.
I was a senior in high school (Capital High in Boise, ID), and I was in Space Science class as my school had the fortune of having a Planetarium (seriously) so we had made special arrangements to be out of our next class to watch the launch (The Alternate teacher, Barbara Morgan, was from Idaho as well).
The biggest thing I remember is everyone being confused. We didn't know what happened and it was very quiet as we were waiting for someone to explain.
I've seen 'footage' since then where the newscaster was 'instantly' making exclamations about the tragedy when it happened, but watching it live, it did not happen that way. (or at least not on the schools feed).
I'm glad in one way that 'I was there' because it has very much been distorted by both the media and the retelling. Even 10 years ago when they were commemorating that anniversary I was scratching my head wondering how people were so confused.
You already have to have entered your username and password to get the button, which means even if they put a picture of a baboon in, it's to late.
Also, requiring extra questions works against us by potentially providing even MORE information that they would need to allow them to contact the bank in any way.
Man-In-The-Middle attacks completely eliminate our abilities to create a one-sided trust based system with our current deployment.
In fact, even client-side certificates are potentially defeatable with MIIM simply because with todays speedy technology, even though the communication channel is initially secured, the first html page and any graphics on the page act as a known result to compare a brute-force attack against the session-key.
This could be made more robust with a situation where you have a bank signed client-side certificate, and the banks response is a uniquely hashed webpage since your identity is presumed immediately based on the certificate. I would be comfortable putting in my password when it says "Hello....," which you would still want in the situation that your own certificate was swiped (or you simply left your system unattended after your certificates were unlocked).
Not only gets you a copy of the premier issue as a bonus, it's also a DISCOUNTED subscription of $29.95. [this is the only discount I've seen, the rest of the codes are just for a free issue]
don't you see? This is just the beta test towards the ever popular inmate control system. Explosives and all. They just need to test them externally before making it an ingestible pill ala Fortress or any other randomly choosen future prison movie.
Quite possibly the secretive nature of GAIN is seductive to DOHS. Maybe they've plans to put a new search bar at the bottom us the screen. One that lets DOHS monitor you across MUTLITPLE sysstems.
In fact, the sled and gimball of a real steadicam(tm) move independantly of the operator. Including tilt/yaw/roll. Leaning forward and back don't change the angle of the camera if properly adjusted and guided.
Steadicam's are 'steered' with the operator manipulating the camera near where the gimball attaches to the sled. You wouldn't want to, but you could spin the balanced sled on the end of the arm.
You can add a bit more weight at the bottom of the sled to assist in keeping the bottom on the bottom but to much will cause a pendulum effect.
The real problem with this (seen this one years ago) and most of the other hand mounted 'steady cams' is that your arm and shoulder replace the flexarm and vest. Believe me, I've operated more than a few of the homemade and even a GlideCam, but bringing in a real SteadiCam operator was a blessing. The more mass the steadier the system, but when YOUR ARM and SHOULDER are supporting all the weight it does not take long to get exhausted and very sore.
Perhaps the reason this works the way is does is Darwinism at work.
If you have a species that is overconsuming (theoretically over eating or out eating other spieces) it could be necessary to eliminate that speicies (or individual) to keep the environment in balance.
We've only had the ability to transport massive amount of food for a very relatively short period of time. Way back in the past, species that overconsumed would have a tendancy to eat themselves to death. (no food = adapt, move or die). So perhaps the Telemeres and the information determined by this article come down to a basic fact that we are overlooking. We may be programmed specifically to eat at a level that should be able to be sustained in nature.
There is not doubt that Americans in particular are a culture that overeat as a norm (yes, please UltraSize that). Did you know that an original order of fries at McD's wasn't all that bad for you? but a traditional serving size was only 3oz.
A friend of mine is actually one of the BattleBot's judges and we where just discussing the show a couple weeks ago. (BTW, he also was accepted into Spike & Mike's Sick & Twisted for a marionette play he wrote, check it out when it comes to your area)
BattleBot's rapid rise may actually be what helps kill it.
I remember back in 1994 when Robot Wars started here in San Francisco at Fort Mason, it was a big C.F.
I think it was in 1996(?) that they finally added the plexiglass barriers (only 6 feet or so, but it was better than the knee high barrier before that. The name changed sometime between 1997-1999, but I was not
following it much at that time.
Comedy Central first filmed the June 2000 event (Season I) which was now a whole weekend and would
become what we know today.
From the humble beginings Robot Wars grew in size, eventually came corporate sponsorship and with Comedy Central
came advertisers.
Comedy Central played with time slots for quite some time, never quite gettng it right (I never understood the
property being on that network anyway, but I wasn't complaining that I could see it) and they cancelled this year.
The worst part is that the event has grown so big, it can not support itself without the financial backing it received
and it's doubtful the event will continue unless it gets picked up by another network (Hey, SciFi channel, hint hint).
I'm bummed because I finally had my design for a bot, but I don't want to build it without a venue to play. Whats worse
are the people who are already in construction of bots for the next event and those tweaking prior bots as well.
I'd also love to see season 5 with Gary Coleman. (Strange, I know, but I used to play Photon [a laser tag game]
against Gary Colemna in Westminister, CA back in 1988).
I didn't even finish my bottle of Pepsi Blue, and Pepper's Red Fusion was quite a disappointment. Vanilla Coke is a poor substitute for the fountain version of it (ie: regular fountain coke with vanilla syrup). Can't speak to Sobe's Mr. Green, never even heard of it. However, we have a drink for that all weekend activity type of person:
Blaze of Glory
In a 64oz cup:
1 can Red Bull energy drink
1 scope Gatorade concentrate
fill to top with Mountain Dew
We find that the Red Bull helps keep the fingers only twitching when we WANT them to, instead of the caffine causing you to waste your ammo.
Other than headaches (50%) and Nausea (13%), there are some issues here.
Provigal affects Birth Control!
Patients should be advised to notify their physician if they become pregnant or intend to become pregnant during therapy. Patients should be cautioned regarding the potential increased risk of pregnancy when using steroidal contraceptives (including depot or implantable contraceptives) with PROVIGIL tablets and for one month after discontinuation of therapy
I found a few references to possible birth defects as well, however not seriously sightable statements. Even the official website states that dosage during pregnancy should seriously consider the benefits to outweigh the risks.
The strangest issue is that for a drug that has been around since the 70's there is very little data about interaction with other drugs and they just recommend you don't use alot of different types. Brings up something I remember hearing about a company in the past that found negative results and decided that they just "hadn't performed those tests". Who knows.
Buyer Beware.
I'm male though, so where do I order my emergency supply!:)
Even if they can be educated to distinguish advertising from content, there are many flashy (and annoying) advertisements that most of us ignore promising rewards like:
"If this banner is flashing, You've won $50!"
"You have new mail."
etc. A completely seperate issue to advertising vs. content is false/misleading advertising. People (hopefully) evenutally learn to distinguish this, however much of this catches adults off guard as well.
After receiving an additional message and telling the user to get a life and/or get lost I have not received any further messages as of yet.
I also received the following message (to a different internal non-user account) which is probably unrelated but timely:
From: Home Business Lifestyle ellsworthtoohey29@workfromhomenewsletter.com
Hello dnsadmin@***.com, welcome to the Work From Home Newsletter!
Dear dnsadmin@***.com,
Welcome to the Work From Home Newsletter!
We were given your e-mail address by one of our partner
websites as someone who is interested in working from
home or home-based business opportunities. If this is
not the case, or if you would rather not receive our
publication, simply reply to this message and you will
be promptly removed from our subscriber list.
Wishing you prosperity in your ventures,
R. J. Tyree
Editor, Work From Home Newsletter
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Doing a Google on Tyree and "Work from Home" brought up this link which looks completely different and has a different voicemail message. However it has they same reference to a $39.95 Home Decision Kit. I wonder? don't you?
Just yesterday I was the lucky recipient of a H.F.O.B. (Huge F***cking Obnoxious Block) advertisement while reading a yahoo mail message. I bookmarked it and researched it after I finished the rest of my work for the day.
After hacking through the initial 'contact' page which goes to GREAT lengths to make sure you didn't enter a dummy email address or phone number (pattern matching, predicted strings, etc) I was sent to the following link [Distributor ID removed to make sure he can't profit from it] page. It's a server that they pay for (one way or another) to have a tracking link.
The result, for $39.95, you get sent to you 'free shipping' your Information Decision Package (Gee, sound familiar) that contains 'EVERYTHING' you need to know. (yeah right)
I also immediately began receiving emails to the single-register email address I setup. In 24 hours, I've received 4 messages so far.
My FAVORITE part is on their contact page . Throughout the whole site they tell you that you can't contact them before you order your $39.95 IDP, however on the contact page they have this to say:
After reviewing our website, if you still feel you need "more information" before you purchase a guaranteed decision and training package, then chances are that this is not for you and you wouldn't meet our qualifications.
Meaning, if your not stupid enough to pay $40 for something you know absolutely nothing about, your smarter than we are and you'll see what kind of financial idiots your looking at.
How fun, how timely!
I'm just getting to this, so it's probably going to be buried in deep. If you get this far, I hope you enjoy the information!
According to This{googled} article and it's related documentary program, the first sapien inhabitants where aborigines from the same ancesterage as from Australia. They where then subsequently exterminated during the Asian migration.
Garth
Alternativly, you can go for a PCI expansion for your laptop. This lets you choose from a much broader range of equipment that you could also use in your studio desktop setup.
Personally, I previously used a Toshiba Tecra 720 with an Expansion Station V (PA2710U). This is a lower older Pentium solution, however they can be had for really cheap on ebay. The PA2710U works with most Tecra models up through the 8000 as well as some of the Portege models (requires an adaptor [PA2714U]).
I currently use a Tecra 8100 (PIII) with it's expansion station (PA3018U). This is much more current and not as inexpensive, (most of the cost is the 8100!! but what a sweet machine).
There are however more generic solutions to allow you to add PCI slots to PC's and Mac's.
Magma Offers PCMCIA/CardBus to PCI adaptors in the 1 slot full or half length card as well as a 2 slot and 4 slot solutions with built in drive controllers.
Getting all the way to the extrememe, companies like Baber.com sell a Universal Expansion Stations like the PCIDock 5000 that will adds a mini-tower including a second screen display, IDE controller, USB, Serial, Parrellel ports all in one unit. Basically a PC without a CPU.
Re:Great news for people with retinal ablation
on
Bionic Eyes
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· Score: 2
Discover magazine ran an article on the silicon version of this in August 2001 and I remember seeing something about it on one of the Discovery Science channel programs.
The question I have about your comment however is: if your retina is detaching, wouldn't this technology be just as ineffective as your existing retina?
This seems to be a pretty invasive procedure and might even make your problem worse as the retina is 'elevated' to insert the arrays.
This could probably speed or complicate your problem based on the type of retinal detachment you have. (more information on retinal detachment here: http://www.vrmny.com/retinal_detachment.htm
Slashdot Mirror
I didn't want to build THEIR GoogleAd/Spyware potential with my name.
Patience is a virtue. They started at $5K! and after almost a year of telling them what they could do with their offers (they sent me another message every other month or so) I was tired one day and raised my "don't even contact me if it's not under" from $50 to $100. The next day I got an invoice!
I used a one-use virtual credit card (come on, I'm not stupid) and paid for it. 2 days later the change over completed and I spent a couple more bucks to transfer away from this unknown (to me) registrar the next day.
More than I wanted to spend, but worth the future problems I hope would come if my product becomes succesful. :)
What I find more annoying is the people that tell me I need to sell them one of my active domains because they want it. Are they spambots that are not even looking at the site, or do they just hope I'm stupid?
Punch cards are not coded with pencil, they are coded with physical holes "punched" out of the paper (becoming... can we say it.. Chads!)
Unless your refering to MarkSense which turned marked cards into punch-cards by a machine that would sense the mark and punch it out.
Thanks to the last US Presidental election, the whole worlds knows the term chads, even if they don't all know what they mean. :)
If your going to be viewing with the naked eye, let your eyes get accustomed to the darkness for a bit first and eat some carrots the night before.
The biggest thing I remember is everyone being confused. We didn't know what happened and it was very quiet as we were waiting for someone to explain.
I've seen 'footage' since then where the newscaster was 'instantly' making exclamations about the tragedy when it happened, but watching it live, it did not happen that way. (or at least not on the schools feed).
I'm glad in one way that 'I was there' because it has very much been distorted by both the media and the retelling. Even 10 years ago when they were commemorating that anniversary I was scratching my head wondering how people were so confused.
Makes me wonder about a LOT of our history.
You already have to have entered your username and password to get the button, which means even if they put a picture of a baboon in, it's to late.
Also, requiring extra questions works against us by potentially providing even MORE information that they would need to allow them to contact the bank in any way.
Man-In-The-Middle attacks completely eliminate our abilities to create a one-sided trust based system with our current deployment.
In fact, even client-side certificates are potentially defeatable with MIIM simply because with todays speedy technology, even though the communication channel is initially secured, the first html page and any graphics on the page act as a known result to compare a brute-force attack against the session-key.
This could be made more robust with a situation where you have a bank signed client-side certificate, and the banks response is a uniquely hashed webpage since your identity is presumed immediately based on the certificate. I would be comfortable putting in my password when it says "Hello ....," which you would still want in the situation that your own certificate was swiped (or you simply left your system unattended after your certificates were unlocked).
Not only gets you a copy of the premier issue as a bonus, it's also a DISCOUNTED subscription of $29.95. [this is the only discount I've seen, the rest of the codes are just for a free issue]
Enjoy!
don't you see? This is just the beta test towards the ever popular inmate control system. Explosives and all. They just need to test them externally before making it an ingestible pill ala Fortress or any other randomly choosen future prison movie.
Quite possibly the secretive nature of GAIN is seductive to DOHS. Maybe they've plans to put a new search bar at the bottom us the screen. One that lets DOHS monitor you across MUTLITPLE sysstems.
Steadicam's are 'steered' with the operator manipulating the camera near where the gimball attaches to the sled. You wouldn't want to, but you could spin the balanced sled on the end of the arm.
You can add a bit more weight at the bottom of the sled to assist in keeping the bottom on the bottom but to much will cause a pendulum effect.
The real problem with this (seen this one years ago) and most of the other hand mounted 'steady cams' is that your arm and shoulder replace the flexarm and vest. Believe me, I've operated more than a few of the homemade and even a GlideCam, but bringing in a real SteadiCam operator was a blessing. The more mass the steadier the system, but when YOUR ARM and SHOULDER are supporting all the weight it does not take long to get exhausted and very sore.
If you have a species that is overconsuming (theoretically over eating or out eating other spieces) it could be necessary to eliminate that speicies (or individual) to keep the environment in balance.
We've only had the ability to transport massive amount of food for a very relatively short period of time. Way back in the past, species that overconsumed would have a tendancy to eat themselves to death. (no food = adapt, move or die). So perhaps the Telemeres and the information determined by this article come down to a basic fact that we are overlooking. We may be programmed specifically to eat at a level that should be able to be sustained in nature.
There is not doubt that Americans in particular are a culture that overeat as a norm (yes, please UltraSize that). Did you know that an original order of fries at McD's wasn't all that bad for you? but a traditional serving size was only 3oz.
Nope, but most of my friends are artists. Many of them do own a PC as well, but for whatever reasons their macs are easier to move or more powerful.
Hmm. Either this is a joke or these guys have a great tounge-in-cheek sense of humor. If it's the later, can't wait to see what they come up with.
BattleBot's rapid rise may actually be what helps kill it.
I remember back in 1994 when Robot Wars started here in San Francisco at Fort Mason, it was a big C.F.
I think it was in 1996(?) that they finally added the plexiglass barriers (only 6 feet or so, but it was better than the knee high barrier before that. The name changed sometime between 1997-1999, but I was not following it much at that time.
Comedy Central first filmed the June 2000 event (Season I) which was now a whole weekend and would become what we know today.
From the humble beginings Robot Wars grew in size, eventually came corporate sponsorship and with Comedy Central came advertisers.
Comedy Central played with time slots for quite some time, never quite gettng it right (I never understood the property being on that network anyway, but I wasn't complaining that I could see it) and they cancelled this year.
The worst part is that the event has grown so big, it can not support itself without the financial backing it received and it's doubtful the event will continue unless it gets picked up by another network (Hey, SciFi channel, hint hint). I'm bummed because I finally had my design for a bot, but I don't want to build it without a venue to play. Whats worse are the people who are already in construction of bots for the next event and those tweaking prior bots as well.
I'd also love to see season 5 with Gary Coleman. (Strange, I know, but I used to play Photon [a laser tag game] against Gary Colemna in Westminister, CA back in 1988).
Blaze of Glory
In a 64oz cup:
1 can Red Bull energy drink
1 scope Gatorade concentrate
fill to top with Mountain Dew
We find that the Red Bull helps keep the fingers only twitching when we WANT them to, instead of the caffine causing you to waste your ammo.
Why in all the comments I've read din't anyone blast this whole topic for the name.
F*c am all
F* A Caml
If this is really true, someone needs to take a look back at some of the naming issues.
Darkstar2a
Provigal affects Birth Control!
I found a few references to possible birth defects as well, however not seriously sightable statements. Even the official website states that dosage during pregnancy should seriously consider the benefits to outweigh the risks.The strangest issue is that for a drug that has been around since the 70's there is very little data about interaction with other drugs and they just recommend you don't use alot of different types. Brings up something I remember hearing about a company in the past that found negative results and decided that they just "hadn't performed those tests". Who knows.
Buyer Beware.
I'm male though, so where do I order my emergency supply! :)
Garth/Darkstar
Even if they can be educated to distinguish advertising from content, there are many flashy (and annoying) advertisements that most of us ignore promising rewards like:
"If this banner is flashing, You've won $50!"
"You have new mail."
etc. A completely seperate issue to advertising vs. content is false/misleading advertising. People (hopefully) evenutally learn to distinguish this, however much of this catches adults off guard as well.
Garth/Darkstar
I also received the following message (to a different internal non-user account) which is probably unrelated but timely:
From: Home Business Lifestyle ellsworthtoohey29@workfromhomenewsletter.com
Doing a Google on Tyree and "Work from Home" brought up this link which looks completely different and has a different voicemail message. However it has they same reference to a $39.95 Home Decision Kit. I wonder? don't you?Garth
Anyone else have a mirror? What I want to know is when will Lego go public! Keep buying, keep building. :)
Garth
It's a RealAudio file (who's business practices annoy me, so find it yourself if you don't have it already)
Garth
After hacking through the initial 'contact' page which goes to GREAT lengths to make sure you didn't enter a dummy email address or phone number (pattern matching, predicted strings, etc) I was sent to the following link [Distributor ID removed to make sure he can't profit from it] page. It's a server that they pay for (one way or another) to have a tracking link.
The result, for $39.95, you get sent to you 'free shipping' your Information Decision Package (Gee, sound familiar) that contains 'EVERYTHING' you need to know. (yeah right)
I also immediately began receiving emails to the single-register email address I setup. In 24 hours, I've received 4 messages so far.
My FAVORITE part is on their contact page . Throughout the whole site they tell you that you can't contact them before you order your $39.95 IDP, however on the contact page they have this to say:
Meaning, if your not stupid enough to pay $40 for something you know absolutely nothing about, your smarter than we are and you'll see what kind of financial idiots your looking at.How fun, how timely!
I'm just getting to this, so it's probably going to be buried in deep. If you get this far, I hope you enjoy the information!
Garth
Perhaps it will be back in rotation later this week.
Garth
According to This {googled} article and it's related documentary program, the first sapien inhabitants where aborigines from the same ancesterage as from Australia. They where then subsequently exterminated during the Asian migration. Garth
Personally, I previously used a Toshiba Tecra 720 with an Expansion Station V (PA2710U). This is a lower older Pentium solution, however they can be had for really cheap on ebay. The PA2710U works with most Tecra models up through the 8000 as well as some of the Portege models (requires an adaptor [PA2714U]).
I currently use a Tecra 8100 (PIII) with it's expansion station (PA3018U). This is much more current and not as inexpensive, (most of the cost is the 8100!! but what a sweet machine).
There are however more generic solutions to allow you to add PCI slots to PC's and Mac's. Magma Offers PCMCIA/CardBus to PCI adaptors in the 1 slot full or half length card as well as a 2 slot and 4 slot solutions with built in drive controllers.
Getting all the way to the extrememe, companies like Baber.com sell a Universal Expansion Stations like the PCIDock 5000 that will adds a mini-tower including a second screen display, IDE controller, USB, Serial, Parrellel ports all in one unit. Basically a PC without a CPU.
The question I have about your comment however is: if your retina is detaching, wouldn't this technology be just as ineffective as your existing retina?
This seems to be a pretty invasive procedure and might even make your problem worse as the retina is 'elevated' to insert the arrays.
This could probably speed or complicate your problem based on the type of retinal detachment you have. (more information on retinal detachment here: http://www.vrmny.com/retinal_detachment.htm