I would give them a cash bonus, perhaps of $500, and also promise to keep the office fridge stocked with soda the next year. That way the bonus keeps on giving:-)
Let's see how long, in the current economy, Verisign avoids using pop-up ads. I can just imagine typing in a wrong domain name and having 15 pop-ups such as "what the monkey and win a prize" or flash ads that take over your screen.
I hope ICANN follows through with their threat and sues them so the first steps in getting a better DNS oversight agency can be taken.
Or perhaps it's time for backbones and providers start thinking about a better system. DNS is a protocol that could use an overhaul.
to conceal... from any communication service provider... the existence or place of origin or destination of any communication.
I believe that this item is probably not intended to go after NAT'd computers, but to try to cut back on spammers using broadband connections.
If this is the reason, they should be applauded for trying something new. This law WOULD make forged headers illegal.
One problem is that this also constrains anonymous peer-to-peer systems such as Freenet. One of it's strengths is that when you receive a request for a file from an IP, you don't know if that IP origionated the request. If you don't have it, you pass on the request and the node you pass it onto doesn't know if you requested it.
This does make it impossible for a "communications service provider" to determine the origin or destination of the file or information request.
If this is the intended outcome, it is a major violation of a civil liverty we have been appreciating lately.
Heven forbid that someone try to sue the gun and the cigarette industry to hold them accountable for the idocy of their consumers! Seriously, yes it is illogical to hold a company responsible for problems that consumers have with the product because they are dumb enough to use it. Unfortuantly, logic is not, and never is going to be, a part of the "American Justice System" (TM). I say that it's time for another revolution. Every generation has had a fight; a cause. There is none right now. In the 60's it was big government that didn't care about the thoughts of it's citizens. Now, it's the big corporations that do not care about it's consumers. The corporations are just getting a little ancy because they see that people are scrambling for ways to reduce our dependency on companies. Too many people asking for sulfur to be lowered in gasoline, trying to keep the Alaskan Wildlife Preserve, and citizens wanting the US to sign the Kayoto Protocol to promise to cut down on greenhouse gases? Well, oil companies cannot let that happen! Hence the increase in the cost of gas, and the energy secretary looking bad. Who? The energy secretary who at one point was to be Gore's running mate. Isn't it also interesting how Bush has promised so many things to help the oil industry (Kayoto protocol, sulfur additives, wildlife preserve) and his running mate is an executive with STRONG ties to the oil industry? Our country is not a democracy. It's run by a board of directors. Welcome to Planet Starbucks.
How interesting. You developed Spellswell for BeOS becuase you assumed that Be would continue to focus on the desktop version and not stop development. Well, I bought a copy of spelswell from you because I assumed that it would continue to be developed. What good is a dictionary when it's never updated? Besides, when it finds a word that is not in the dictionary and I click "add" it does not add it. So, since you are dropping development of Spellswell, then you are doing the same thing Be did? I can't help but notice that I have v1.0.5, your 'newest' version. Howcome the copyright in the info box says 1997-1998? [sarcasm] yeah, it sounds like you have been slaving over code lately [/sarcasm]
Power Consumption: Use solar cells to help charge power system, as well as a few wind generators. Waterproofing: Have your computer sealed in a watertight cabinet. The only external devices could be a waterproof LCD and keyboard. Just figure out how to waterproof the VGA connector using o-rings. Antenna: Has anyone thought of using a weather baloon type of setup? Basically have an antenna that all you do is send it up, send your messages, send an ID code so a server or HAM sat or something knows you are online and sends your messages and sends an end-of-transmission signal when done. Then reel it back in. Hmm, what about that mirror they put on the moon to test it's distance now and then. If you had some damn good shock equipment that would be able to adjust itself very quickly to motion, maybe you could shine a laser to the mirror. Hell, if you have the power you could shine a laser to the moon and have some friend with a really good telescope watching a specific area. Then pipe the image from a CCD attachment on the telescope to a computer to convert the data (ala Timex Watch) OK, I know the power consumption is a joke. Never mind... Hmm, why doesn't someone make some automated packetradio repeaters and put them on floating bouys so they just wander the ocean and make cells. That would be pretty cool, and the cost of the service could pay for the occasional theft or drunken sailers too happy with their harpoons... Any communication on the ocean could be figured out. The problem is a good electrical source. I can't wait for the day when they finally figure out a cost efective way to beam energy from space. Until then, there are the conventional ways as well as one coolone that works on a peltier principal. Lower a wire very deep and have the other end near the surface. The difference in heat is supposed to generate electricity (I think it requires that each end of the wire be a different metal). Or go to Russia and buy a surplus satellite nuclear reactor. Well, it's not really a reactor, but a nuclear battery with a 45 year half life. Not the biggest energy output, but it never has to be recharged. What about that bacteria they found in a Colorado mine that eats copper and secretes sulphuric acid? Could you put that in a battery and just replace the coper when it gets low instead of having to replace the acid? Anyway, I'm ranting now.
Populated by penguins? That is an even better reason to have a data haven there.
Penguin = Linux.
In addition, BX is a pretty good chipset made by Intel, and it also stands for Base Exchange which almost reminds me of Base 8, aka Hex code. It also stands for "Bitch X Linux IRC Client"
The UN and any country that exists would not recognize the status of any floating island. In fact Paragraph 8 of Article 60 of the UN Maritime Law Convention states:
Artificial islands, installations and structures do not possess the status of islands. They have no territorial sea of their own, and their presence does not affect the delimitation of the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone or the continental shelf.
Basically what I am saying is that they do not have to treat you with 'kid gloves' like most countries treat other countries. They won't hold back or care about protocol.
Because of that pirate radio station off the UK coastline, the international law has changed. This is a quote from Article 109 of the UN maritime law convention.
Unauthorized broadcasting from the high seas
1. All States shall cooperate in the suppression of unauthorized broadcasting from the high seas.
2. For the purposes of this Convention, "unauthorized broadcasting" means the transmission of sound radio or television broadcasts from a ship or installation on the high seas intended for reception by the general public contrary to international regulations, but excluding the transmission of distress calls.
3. Any person engaged in unauthorized broadcasting may be prosecuted before the court of:
the flag State of the ship;
the State of registry of the installation;
the State of which the person is a national;
any State where the transmissions can be received; or
any State where authorized radio communication is suffering interference.
4. On the high seas, a State having jurisdiction in accordance with paragraph3 may, in conformity with article110, arrest any person or ship engaged in unauthorized broadcasting and seize the broadcasting apparatus.
I quote: 1. Ships shall sail under the flag of one State only and, save in exceptional cases expressly provided for in international treaties or in this Convention, shall be subject to its exclusive jurisdiction on the high seas. Aship may not change its flag during a voyage or while in a port of call, save in the case of a real transfer of ownership or change of registry. 2. Aship which sails under the flags of two or more States, using them according to convenience, may not claim any of the nationalities in question with respect to any other State, and may be assimilated to a ship without nationality.
The thing is that you will never find any country that everyone agrees with your views. All the political systems in the world are like an old mainframe. It's easier to just get a new machine than to try to understand the code that was written 20 years earlier. It's time that we [geeks / hackers / privacy nuts] make our own country.
The idea of a floating island or a boat city or something is very sexy, I agree. Unfortuantly it is very expensive and hard to maintain. Can you imagine the logistics of trying to keep a structure big enough to hold 10k people floating? It would also be difficult because of it's size, it'll be more prone to being destroyed by weather, so it will always be on the move so it's ahead of some squall or hurricane. Plus you have to worry about data connections because since it is not a solid land mass, you cannot have undersea cables. Then there is getting fresh water, maintance, danger of submarines, mad bombers who can attach a small bomb to the hull, etc. There are too many problems with the idea.
The best idea is to buy an island. There are quite a few people on this board who make very good money. We can start our own island, our own government, and we can do things right this time. We can have true democracy through technology, instead of having representatives who don't represent the American people, they just represent whatever companies give them a nice chunk of change.
Check out my site at http://www.techendeavors.com because I have put a lot of brainstorming into this idea. I have an island picked out, estimates of costs, some ideas on transportation, tax, legal, and governmental systems. There is a message board so you can leave comments.
It's time for us hackers / computer geeks / nerds / political activists to quit bitching about the world. Instead of complaining or trying to fix the system through political channels, we need to make our own system. We cannot just wait for some country to feel sympathy for us and 'do the right thing.'
We need our own country. Our own island somewhere where we can start from scratch, the right way. The government would consist of democracy through technology. Everyone would have digital communications access. You think that a new streetlight needs to be out up? Log on and submit it. If more people support it then think it's a bad idea, it'll get done. A moderated government so to speak.
A politician should never make laws that he thinks would be for the best of his country's citizens. A politician should just be an administrator who carries out the requests and rules set forth by the majority
Other governments would want to shut us down, but after a while, they wouldn't dare. Why attack a country with some of the brightest minds who are not constrained by the laws of totalitarian governments? They know that they couldn't do anything except a full nuclear strike, and that would be political suicide. Net access is easy. Simply deal with some countries who don't care about us. If the island is in the South Pacific, run some submarine cables to Argentina. Maybe we could buy a huge chunk of land somewhere like Brazil. It doesn't matter where. Technology today allows us to evolve our \environment to suit ourselves.
OK, well I've ranted enough. Actually, this has been on my mind a lot and I've even gone through the trouble of picking an island, working out all the logistics, and designing the infrastructure, government, and economic system.
Yes, I'm lonely =) When I'm done with my proposal, I'll stick it on a webpage and submit it to slashdot and maybe it'll get posted.
Maybe it's old news, but as everyone known, the news moderators are GODS! They must have their reasons. Possibly some large toy corporation gave them a check? Just speculation of course, but seriously, what next? How to convert Barbie's Dreamhouse to work with X10 controls?
I think that everyone has forgotten ROT13 =) A=N, B=O, C=P, D=Q, etc... A bunch of Usenet readers used to have that embedded in them so you could just select UnROT from a menu and it would decrypt the text. Extremly trivial encryption. Wouldn't keep an expert away for half a second, but it might be enough to make it pass the keyword filters at ECHELON.
Hmm, don't love testers work on the same principal? So, if I get a high score, I'm a hot 'fire-cracker' and millions of dead alien souls are clinging to my body? (If you have read about the joke that the CoS is, you would know what I'm talking about.) You then pay them hundreds and thousands of dollars (Sometimes Tens and Hundreds of thousands) to get the dead alien souls 'purged' from your body. But wait! That would make me a 'cold fish'!
Decisions... Decisions... Eternal Salvation with the Alien Lord, or no sex life.... I think it's obvious that the dead alien sould (Thetans) must act like a spiritual Viagra =)
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If you have made sure that your drivers are up to date, there are no programs in the background, and followed other suggestions by EA, then it could quite possibly be a hardware issue. As a PC tech, I hate problems like this because they are so hard to diagnose.
The first things that you should consider to be at fault are memory, video RAM, and cache. They are a common source of problems that don't seem to have a cause. That's because they are so sensitive to electrostatic shock, that when they are put in, they could be damaged but still work. You can check those components by using hardware testing software. I must warn you that a memory test can take hours. If you have 128 MB, prepare to leave the machine on for over a day. Check out PCDiags (but that one costs money) or visit your hardware manufacturers page to get testing programs for each piece of hardware. If you don't know what hardware you have, use System Analyser to make a list.
After you have ruled those out, break down the system to the bare components that you need to run the game. Take out your sound card, modem, ethernet card, and disconnect all peripherials except mouse, keyboard, and monitor. Then play and see if it crashed. If it doesn't, then it was one of those components. Start putting them in one-by-one until the problem happens again, and you should know what is wrong.
The hardware isn't what caught my eye in the story. It was the little fact at the bottom of the article. ...domain-name registrations--jumped from 1.5 million a day to 25 million a day in the first 12 weeks of the year... All I can say is WOW. Are there enough coherent domain name possibilities left?
Not mineral oil - fluorinert. Costs about $18 for a 5 gallon container. Does not corrode, conduct electricity, and it absorbs heat 12 times better than water. I'm actually trying to get some startup capitol to mass manufacture some cases for full submersion of computers in flourinert. Well, there are other options other than fluorinert. 3M makes several dielectric chemicals like it. Check out their Specialty Fluids website for information on lots of flourinated chemicals, or check out Flourinert directly.
It usually takes a week or two of viewing habits of about 4 or 5 shows a day in order for it to generate a good viewing profile. It also pays attention to you just deleting a show without watching it, thumbs ups, thumbs down, etc. TO see what it will record or what it thinks you like, go to the main TiVo screen > Pick programs to record > TiVo's Suggestions
Try the Stadium Pal. Ahh, the miracle of plastics have made it so when the food patch is complete, geeks can just sit in their chair and only get up once a week to empty the bladder pouch and get new food patches =)
Because the Columbine Killers wore black and were socially inept does not mean that all socially inept people who wear black will take up arms and go on a rampage. In fact, today Penn State University released a study that shows 60 percent of males who were surveyed admitted to a recent homicidal fantasy (females scored 32 percent) Just because someone thinks or daydreams of getting revenge on the jocks that make their life a living hell does not mean they will act on it. The majority of geeks are content with the knowledge that they will have better jobs, have more money, and probably have a better looking wife / husband than the jocks who will eventually end up managing some little hardware store or McDonalds.
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You want to visit DIYDrones.com
It's a very active community that has a lot of resources for people entering the UAV scene.
With all the new laws, it would be up to God to prove that he's innocent. Then again, good luck trying to get damages from God if SCO wins that one.
Most CT systems use X-Windows on top of a SCO Unix installation, so he'll probably be OK with doing it...
I would give them a cash bonus, perhaps of $500, and also promise to keep the office fridge stocked with soda the next year. That way the bonus keeps on giving :-)
Let's see how long, in the current economy, Verisign avoids using pop-up ads. I can just imagine typing in a wrong domain name and having 15 pop-ups such as "what the monkey and win a prize" or flash ads that take over your screen.
I hope ICANN follows through with their threat and sues them so the first steps in getting a better DNS oversight agency can be taken.
Or perhaps it's time for backbones and providers start thinking about a better system. DNS is a protocol that could use an overhaul.
--tasty and delicious
to conceal ... from any communication service provider ... the existence or place of origin or destination of any communication.
I believe that this item is probably not intended to go after NAT'd computers, but to try to cut back on spammers using broadband connections.
If this is the reason, they should be applauded for trying something new. This law WOULD make forged headers illegal.
One problem is that this also constrains anonymous peer-to-peer systems such as Freenet. One of it's strengths is that when you receive a request for a file from an IP, you don't know if that IP origionated the request. If you don't have it, you pass on the request and the node you pass it onto doesn't know if you requested it.
This does make it impossible for a "communications service provider" to determine the origin or destination of the file or information request.
If this is the intended outcome, it is a major violation of a civil liverty we have been appreciating lately.
The BeOS is Unicode compliant. From the ground up. UTF8 is very useful.
Heven forbid that someone try to sue the gun and the cigarette industry to hold them accountable for the idocy of their consumers! Seriously, yes it is illogical to hold a company responsible for problems that consumers have with the product because they are dumb enough to use it. Unfortuantly, logic is not, and never is going to be, a part of the "American Justice System" (TM).
I say that it's time for another revolution. Every generation has had a fight; a cause. There is none right now. In the 60's it was big government that didn't care about the thoughts of it's citizens. Now, it's the big corporations that do not care about it's consumers. The corporations are just getting a little ancy because they see that people are scrambling for ways to reduce our dependency on companies.
Too many people asking for sulfur to be lowered in gasoline, trying to keep the Alaskan Wildlife Preserve, and citizens wanting the US to sign the Kayoto Protocol to promise to cut down on greenhouse gases? Well, oil companies cannot let that happen! Hence the increase in the cost of gas, and the energy secretary looking bad. Who? The energy secretary who at one point was to be Gore's running mate. Isn't it also interesting how Bush has promised so many things to help the oil industry (Kayoto protocol, sulfur additives, wildlife preserve) and his running mate is an executive with STRONG ties to the oil industry? Our country is not a democracy. It's run by a board of directors.
Welcome to Planet Starbucks.
How interesting. You developed Spellswell for BeOS becuase you assumed that Be would continue to focus on the desktop version and not stop development. Well, I bought a copy of spelswell from you because I assumed that it would continue to be developed. What good is a dictionary when it's never updated? Besides, when it finds a word that is not in the dictionary and I click "add" it does not add it. So, since you are dropping development of Spellswell, then you are doing the same thing Be did? I can't help but notice that I have v1.0.5, your 'newest' version. Howcome the copyright in the info box says 1997-1998? [sarcasm] yeah, it sounds like you have been slaving over code lately [/sarcasm]
Power Consumption: Use solar cells to help charge power system, as well as a few wind generators. Waterproofing: Have your computer sealed in a watertight cabinet. The only external devices could be a waterproof LCD and keyboard. Just figure out how to waterproof the VGA connector using o-rings. Antenna: Has anyone thought of using a weather baloon type of setup? Basically have an antenna that all you do is send it up, send your messages, send an ID code so a server or HAM sat or something knows you are online and sends your messages and sends an end-of-transmission signal when done. Then reel it back in. Hmm, what about that mirror they put on the moon to test it's distance now and then. If you had some damn good shock equipment that would be able to adjust itself very quickly to motion, maybe you could shine a laser to the mirror. Hell, if you have the power you could shine a laser to the moon and have some friend with a really good telescope watching a specific area. Then pipe the image from a CCD attachment on the telescope to a computer to convert the data (ala Timex Watch) OK, I know the power consumption is a joke. Never mind... Hmm, why doesn't someone make some automated packetradio repeaters and put them on floating bouys so they just wander the ocean and make cells. That would be pretty cool, and the cost of the service could pay for the occasional theft or drunken sailers too happy with their harpoons... Any communication on the ocean could be figured out. The problem is a good electrical source. I can't wait for the day when they finally figure out a cost efective way to beam energy from space. Until then, there are the conventional ways as well as one coolone that works on a peltier principal. Lower a wire very deep and have the other end near the surface. The difference in heat is supposed to generate electricity (I think it requires that each end of the wire be a different metal). Or go to Russia and buy a surplus satellite nuclear reactor. Well, it's not really a reactor, but a nuclear battery with a 45 year half life. Not the biggest energy output, but it never has to be recharged. What about that bacteria they found in a Colorado mine that eats copper and secretes sulphuric acid? Could you put that in a battery and just replace the coper when it gets low instead of having to replace the acid? Anyway, I'm ranting now.
Penguin = Linux.
In addition, BX is a pretty good chipset made by Intel, and it also stands for Base Exchange which almost reminds me of Base 8, aka Hex code. It also stands for "Bitch X Linux IRC Client"
Hey, we can't go wrong =)
Artificial islands, installations and structures do not possess the status of islands. They have no territorial sea of their own, and their presence does not affect the delimitation of the territorial sea, the exclusive economic zone or the continental shelf.
Basically what I am saying is that they do not have to treat you with 'kid gloves' like most countries treat other countries. They won't hold back or care about protocol.
Unauthorized broadcasting from the high seas
1. All States shall cooperate in the suppression of unauthorized broadcasting from the high seas.
2. For the purposes of this Convention, "unauthorized broadcasting" means the transmission of sound radio or television broadcasts from a ship or installation on the high seas intended for reception by the general public contrary to international regulations, but excluding the transmission of distress calls.
3. Any person engaged in unauthorized broadcasting may be prosecuted before the court of:
4. On the high seas, a State having jurisdiction in accordance with paragraph3 may, in conformity with article110, arrest any person or ship engaged in unauthorized broadcasting and seize the broadcasting apparatus.
To read more, check out the UN's internation maritime law conference section at http://www.un.org/Depts/los/unclos/ closindx.htm
I quote:
1. Ships shall sail under the flag of one State only and, save in exceptional cases expressly provided for in international treaties or in this Convention, shall be subject to its exclusive jurisdiction on the high seas. Aship may not change its flag during a voyage or while in a port of call, save in the case of a real transfer of ownership or change of registry.
2. Aship which sails under the flags of two or more States, using them according to convenience, may not claim any of the nationalities in question with respect to any other State, and may be assimilated to a ship without nationality.
That is from section VII of the United Nations publication on the law of the sea. Check out the entire law archive at http://www.un.org/Depts/los/unclos/ closindx.htm
The idea of a floating island or a boat city or something is very sexy, I agree. Unfortuantly it is very expensive and hard to maintain. Can you imagine the logistics of trying to keep a structure big enough to hold 10k people floating? It would also be difficult because of it's size, it'll be more prone to being destroyed by weather, so it will always be on the move so it's ahead of some squall or hurricane. Plus you have to worry about data connections because since it is not a solid land mass, you cannot have undersea cables. Then there is getting fresh water, maintance, danger of submarines, mad bombers who can attach a small bomb to the hull, etc. There are too many problems with the idea.
The best idea is to buy an island. There are quite a few people on this board who make very good money. We can start our own island, our own government, and we can do things right this time. We can have true democracy through technology, instead of having representatives who don't represent the American people, they just represent whatever companies give them a nice chunk of change.
Check out my site at http://www.techendeavors.com because I have put a lot of brainstorming into this idea. I have an island picked out, estimates of costs, some ideas on transportation, tax, legal, and governmental systems. There is a message board so you can leave comments.
It's time for us hackers / computer geeks / nerds / political activists to quit bitching about the world. Instead of complaining or trying to fix the system through political channels, we need to make our own system. We cannot just wait for some country to feel sympathy for us and 'do the right thing.'
We need our own country. Our own island somewhere where we can start from scratch, the right way. The government would consist of democracy through technology. Everyone would have digital communications access. You think that a new streetlight needs to be out up? Log on and submit it. If more people support it then think it's a bad idea, it'll get done. A moderated government so to speak.
A politician should never make laws that he thinks would be for the best of his country's citizens. A politician should just be an administrator who carries out the requests and rules set forth by the majority
Other governments would want to shut us down, but after a while, they wouldn't dare. Why attack a country with some of the brightest minds who are not constrained by the laws of totalitarian governments? They know that they couldn't do anything except a full nuclear strike, and that would be political suicide. Net access is easy. Simply deal with some countries who don't care about us. If the island is in the South Pacific, run some submarine cables to Argentina. Maybe we could buy a huge chunk of land somewhere like Brazil. It doesn't matter where. Technology today allows us to evolve our \environment to suit ourselves.
OK, well I've ranted enough. Actually, this has been on my mind a lot and I've even gone through the trouble of picking an island, working out all the logistics, and designing the infrastructure, government, and economic system.
Yes, I'm lonely =)
When I'm done with my proposal, I'll stick it on a webpage and submit it to slashdot and maybe it'll get posted.
Maybe it's old news, but as everyone known, the news moderators are GODS! They must have their reasons. Possibly some large toy corporation gave them a check? Just speculation of course, but seriously, what next? How to convert Barbie's Dreamhouse to work with X10 controls?
I think that everyone has forgotten ROT13 =) A=N, B=O, C=P, D=Q, etc... A bunch of Usenet readers used to have that embedded in them so you could just select UnROT from a menu and it would decrypt the text. Extremly trivial encryption. Wouldn't keep an expert away for half a second, but it might be enough to make it pass the keyword filters at ECHELON.
Hmm, don't love testers work on the same principal?
So, if I get a high score, I'm a hot 'fire-cracker' and millions of dead alien souls are clinging to my body? (If you have read about the joke that the CoS is, you would know what I'm talking about.) You then pay them hundreds and thousands of dollars (Sometimes Tens and Hundreds of thousands) to get the dead alien souls 'purged' from your body. But wait! That would make me a 'cold fish'!
Decisions... Decisions...
Eternal Salvation with the Alien Lord, or no sex life....
I think it's obvious that the dead alien sould (Thetans) must act like a spiritual Viagra =)
The first things that you should consider to be at fault are memory, video RAM, and cache. They are a common source of problems that don't seem to have a cause. That's because they are so sensitive to electrostatic shock, that when they are put in, they could be damaged but still work. You can check those components by using hardware testing software. I must warn you that a memory test can take hours. If you have 128 MB, prepare to leave the machine on for over a day. Check out PCDiags (but that one costs money) or visit your hardware manufacturers page to get testing programs for each piece of hardware. If you don't know what hardware you have, use System Analyser to make a list.
After you have ruled those out, break down the system to the bare components that you need to run the game. Take out your sound card, modem, ethernet card, and disconnect all peripherials except mouse, keyboard, and monitor. Then play and see if it crashed. If it doesn't, then it was one of those components. Start putting them in one-by-one until the problem happens again, and you should know what is wrong.
The hardware isn't what caught my eye in the story. It was the little fact at the bottom of the article.
...domain-name registrations--jumped from 1.5 million a day to 25 million a day in the first 12 weeks of the year...
All I can say is WOW. Are there enough coherent domain name possibilities left?
Not mineral oil - fluorinert. Costs about $18 for a 5 gallon container. Does not corrode, conduct electricity, and it absorbs heat 12 times better than water. I'm actually trying to get some startup capitol to mass manufacture some cases for full submersion of computers in flourinert. Well, there are other options other than fluorinert. 3M makes several dielectric chemicals like it. Check out their Specialty Fluids website for information on lots of flourinated chemicals, or check out Flourinert directly.
It usually takes a week or two of viewing habits of about 4 or 5 shows a day in order for it to generate a good viewing profile. It also pays attention to you just deleting a show without watching it, thumbs ups, thumbs down, etc. TO see what it will record or what it thinks you like, go to the main TiVo screen > Pick programs to record > TiVo's Suggestions
Try the Stadium Pal. Ahh, the miracle of plastics have made it so when the food patch is complete, geeks can just sit in their chair and only get up once a week to empty the bladder pouch and get new food patches =)
Because the Columbine Killers wore black and were socially inept does not mean that all socially inept people who wear black will take up arms and go on a rampage.
In fact, today Penn State University released a study that shows 60 percent of males who were surveyed admitted to a recent homicidal fantasy (females scored 32 percent)
Just because someone thinks or daydreams of getting revenge on the jocks that make their life a living hell does not mean they will act on it. The majority of geeks are content with the knowledge that they will have better jobs, have more money, and probably have a better looking wife / husband than the jocks who will eventually end up managing some little hardware store or McDonalds.