Did you ever watch the show on the father of safety restraints? I thought not.
Pretty sure 16g was one major limit where his retinas started to detatch. You'll be safer inthe 57 with a seat belt I'd expect.
BTW, most walls give so your argument needs more justification even to be solid. (I remmeber the drunk driver that ran through the garage of a neighbor...:-)
Just take a read of alt.computer.consultants if you want to see a year of really factual analysis of the economic reports (and a bunch of whining).
The economists do not claim globalization has helped the average US person because it has not. Invention have for sure. But any savings due to exporting jobs have been eaten up by the brass and not passed to the consumer. The only help has been the monster of unemployment that has driven us to all be more productive. And I'm not so sure even that is long term beneficial.
You ought to talk to the engineers taking jobs at Dunkin' Donuts before you make claims Offshoring helps the USA. The top 1% of the wealthy maybe.
BTW, here's a riddle for you, "Why does the FED raise rates when pay rates are dropping, unemployment is increasing, and poverty is increasing?"
I'm serious. Imagine a "amway" sort of thing but really flat with the manufacturers at the top. People order over the net cause they own stock in the "thing". Maybe call it "nostra cosa" or something.
I mean, if I'm buying a broom from WMT I don't mind ordering on the net if it makes me richer.
The bootstrap idea would be to get 100k people to sign up and say they'll shop there. Then start it up.
If you research WMT something like 40% of the employees live in poverty and altogethr make less than the top brass. We'd basically take the money from the brass and pass the savings on to the shopper.
#1. Auto prices in 1950 were 1x annual salary
Auto prices in 2000 are 2x annual salary
What is your argument for "Comparative Advantage"?
Almost as bad as NBER using its freshmen models to claim the recession ended when employment has not improved, pay rates are falling, taxes are increasing, inflation remains, and poverty has increased like 1.4M people!
Maybe you, like elBushies, do not like the taste of reality.
We can only hope ALL incumbants get fired and the government takes away their retirement packages due to its impending financial insolvency for which they are each directly and personally responsible.
Did you even read the link? Autos today cost 2 times the avg annual salary while in like 1950 they costed 1. That's dramatic. That's offshoring. Same or less for more! You can never convince me the average modern car has anywhere near the quality of the average car made in 1950.
You run into the back of a '55 chevy with your altima and the guy in the chevy drives off with maybe a bent bumper while they are picking up the pieces of your totaled nissan. That happened to a friend of mine but it was a mercedez and not a nissan. Think about it. There's a reason modern cars have crumple zones. Cause their made of plastic and aluminum instead of steel.
Mostly false... e.g. auto prices have risen much faster than inflation during their 50+ years of offshoring. ref: http://concentrationofwealth.blogspot.com/
Only government officials and economists ignore the jobs reality.
Why do not we all set up an "anti-wal-mart"? We decide to shop online at a store we all own some share of and not to shop at wal-mart. If we get a 1M people then it'll be felt.
1) Is that f not absorbed in space? What? Isn't space filled with H (relative to other elements).
2) How powerful must the xmiter be? That may tell alot.
3) what about com. by gravity? Is gravity instantaneous? though subject to r^2.
4) Any link to signal breakdown? I'd like to look at it in detail.
- the overarching argument about this not being alien seems to be that we do not expect it to be. Also, remember that colonists gave blankets with chicken pox to the American natives. And probably the "new world" was already well established by those "in the know" well before CC. Odds are they know about us. Let's just hope this is their way of saying "Hello".
5) We did signal back with the same signal followed by "hello" followed by the same signal. Didn't we? why not?
6) BTW, what would be the frequency signature of an H bomb reflected from a far away moon?
Thanks for the post. I often wondered about replacement costs. Of course, replacing a slacker might not cost too much:-)
I'm reminded of the second hand story about a former co-worker who now works for Intel. For about two years he'd picked up jobs as people left and was doing the work of 3-4 people and it was too much. For about a year he asked for a new hire. Finally Intel gave him the budget: $6k. Get someone in China and start learning Chinese.
Don't breathe that sigh of relief as this might be your last breath (in tech). At least we can all get in shape when we're picking cans from the garbage piles like the husband and wife team outside my apartment this morning!!!
that's what I thought... coprolite. I was thinking a meter was huge but maybe not for a huge animal. Maybe that corresponds to surviving on a cold planet. Another idea is that of an underground animal who left it. It just does not look worn alot so it is hard to say it if it is old. We need closer pictures but I guess by the time the pictures come to NASA it is too late to head back for more? Peculiarities are the stretching in the first half and compression in the second half and that it is not even 1/2 way buried. The picture looks like a slope goes down to the rock from the foregound. Weird and interesting stuff. The lay of the ground looks like a bottom of a wash rather than a sandy area to me. I guess a hot impact would vaporize the gases and maybe leave something like that?
BTW, how does the rover take animated gifs? Tring to find pictures of surrounding area.
On Topic, programmers are getting beat to death like the auto workers and steel workers in the 80's. By dimantling the middle class one industry sector at a time, the rest of the middle class ignores it. Unfo. for the elitists there's a snapback effect once a critical mass is reached. Perhaps they think by extending the process over 50 years the effect will not occur? I theorized while studying Western Cic. in HS that about 18% of the people have to get really pissed and then they start protests and then the snapback snowballs. When you see people actively attacking the elitist governemnt, then you are seeing that people are pissed.
National Debt (well, basically embezzlement by the politicians and their cronies) is just one reason. Take a look at the last page of this link and see pure embezzlement from our government: embezzlement?. Who's stupid enough to vote for an incumbant? Bush and Kerry are both incumbants. They should both tear their clothes, gnash their teeth, and ask the American people to pray for a better government. They don't.
I was looking at the debt before and got some numbers from various US gov. web sites. Amazingly the dis-information campaign has not shut these down. Funny thing is that it has increased ever since like 1962 but Democrats claim Clinton had a Balanced Budget. This FALSE accounting is nonsense. Ask a kid in school if spending more than you take in is a Balanced Budget. That said, the administration prior to this one did do alot better. The USA cannot afford another Republican government if you believe that relates to the debt trendline. We will be bankrupted and forced into servitude to a world government/bank. "Don't cry for me Argentina....":-)
First look at the situation for UK and Canada.
UK Canada
These can be graphed in Excel... I did not find a good site with the chart on the web. ,Budget Surplus or Deficit (-) as % GDP,Cyclical Surplus or Deficit (-) as % GDP,Other Adjustments as % GDP,Surplus or Deficit (-) as % GDP,Revenues as % GDP,Outlays as % GDP,Debt (100B),Debt as % of GDP,Debt as % of Tax Income (x100),GDP (100T),Debt,Tax Income (100B),Tax Income (B),Tax Income as % of GDP (x100)
1962,-1.2,-0.4,0.1,-0.7,17.3,18,,,,,,0.5,46.5,
1963,-0.8,-0.3,-0.1,-0.6,17.5,18.1,,,,,,0.5,49.1,
1964,-0.9,0.3,0.2,-1,17,18,,,,,,0.5,46,
1965,-0.2,0.8,0.2,-0.8,16.2,17,,,,,,0.5,51.1,
1966,-0.5,1.9,0.4,-2.1,15.9,18,,,,,,0.6,58.6,
1967,-1.1,1.7,*,-2.8,16.9,19.7,,,,,,0.6,64.4,
1968,-3,1.4,0.6,-3.7,16.5,20.3,4,,4.7%,, $358.00,0.8,76.4,
1969,0.4,1.6,*,-1.2,17.7,18.9,4,,4.0%,, $368.00,0.9,91.7,
1970,-0.3,0.6,0.2,-0.6,17.8,18.4,4,,4.4%,, $389.00,0.9,88.9,
1971,-2.1,-0.3,0.9,-0.9,17.1,18.1,4,,4.9%,, $424.00,0.9,85.8,
1972,-2,*,0.3,-1.7,16.9,18.6,4,,4.2%,, $429.00,1.0,102.8,
1973,-1.2,1.2,0.6,-1.7,16.7,18.4,5,,4.3%,, $469.00,1.1,109.6,
1974,-0.4,0.7,1.3,0.1,17.7,17.6,5,0.3%,3.9%,1.5, $492.00,1.3,126.5,8.4%
1975,-3.3,-1.4,2,0.1,18.5,18.4,6,0.4%,4.8%,1.6, $576.00,1.2,120.7,7.5%
1976,-4.1,-1.4,0.8,-2,17.3,19.3,7,0.4%,4.6%,1.8, $653.00,1.4,141.2,7.8%
1977,-2.7,-0.6,1,-1.1,17.8,18.9,7,0.4%,4.4%,2, $718.00,1.6,162.2,8.1%
1978,-2.7,0.1,1.3,-1.5,17.5,19.1,8,0.3%,4.2%,2.3, $789.00,1.9,188.9,8.2%
1979,-1.6,0.5,1.4,-0.7,17.9,18.6,8,0.3%,3.8%,2.6, $845.00,2.2,224.6,8.6%
1980,-2.7,-0.7,1.6,-0.4,18.8,19.2,9,0.3%,3.7%,2.8, $930.00,2.5,250,8.9%
1981,-2.5,-0.9,1.2,-0.4,19.5,19.9,10,0.3%,3.5%,3.1," $1,028.00 ",2.9,290.6,9.4%
1982,-3.7,-2,0.7,-1.1,19.2,20.3,12,0.4%,4.1%,3.3," $1,197.00 "
From the user perspective this is just free. Free is good and then the monopoly includes a free database in its OS. Gee, Linux is beating them to the punches. They gotta be fuming. And looking for some new tricks.
Oh yeah, no mention of Interbase or Firebird here yet. PostGreSQL and that are probably the next things for me to check out.
OK. You take the stored procedures and I'll take the table structure:-0
Just kidding. But seriously, let's make an XML schema representing relational data and get all the vendors to conform to that! Oh yeah!
Nah, just joking. Not really. Seriously. Run db-orginal and db-ingres side by side. Then lets convert all results from each database to XML so we can compare the conversion results with a single, lightening fast string compare!
I deserveth at least $100,000 for the design!
BTW, reminds me of that pitiful $1M bounty to customers by Oracle to demonstrate a faster database. I heard Oracle's license agreement prohibits actually publishing the actual numbers. That's one way to state you re the best, outlaw anyone else arguing with you. What's that religion by that science fiction writer that sues people when they try to expose it?
IE was not even close to being the first. I first used cern browser in '93 I think... soon thereafter there were some really cool browsers that had tabs, session metaphors, etc. And Netscape Mozilla supported multi-threaded browsing. Broken now? Probably Gopher and other command line stuff should be considered too....
Windows seems to get less ready for my desktop every passing month. Bloatware is the main problem. When I have to wait 20+ seconds for an app to restore or wait a few minutes when I come back into work the next day, I wonder, "has Microsoft learned nothing about scheduling for the user" which was so touted as a Sun innovation back in '92 when I took my BSCE OS course. Never mind trying to name a file ".htaccess" from the file explorer or even the lack of File Manager quick file management abilities in file Explorer.
Is that a vacant lot or an office building?:-)
Remember when Teraserver first came out and you could zoom into a frame covering about 200 yds.? i think that was it. Well, so much for decades old russian spy satellites and good free stuff. Ebay ought to buy satellite imaging service from NASA and get some real security checks going. Talk about authentication! How about this:
"Before responding to this email to sign up, please go outside and wave your arms at the satellite". "Sorry, we did not see you. Please jump like a chicken and do a roll on the sidewalk". "OK, your auction has started". (Replace "wave" with a radom action in order to prevent software and robotic signups.:-)
timjowers
You might find out this is a ring of people. We had some hackers attack back in 1998 on our ISP. Turned out to be a ring. Part of it was from an ISP in NY and they pointed to a kid who hung out at the ISP. FBI visited some other dude in Boston. We tracked some others to out in LA.
You see, the mafia is quite profitably making money in fraud and maybe just has this alias as a patsy.
I've entered a few articles myself and most of the time only to be usurped by an even more knowledgeable expert. Now that's using the power of collaboration. That's the future. Wikipedia is decades ahead of Microsoft and a decade ahead of even most other Open Source/Open Collaboration efforts. A century ahead of law practices, engineering firms, medical experts? Probably.
Slashdot Mirror
Toss in the accelerating debt growth and probable falling tax income and you'll really worry. Taxes up. Pay down. Not good.
Hmmm,
#2 Houses were 3.5x annual salary in 1950
Houses now are 5.7x annual salary
OK, now will you agree that the standard of living of the average American is falling and that Offshoring DOES NOT result in lower costs to Americans?
Or do I need to point to those tennis shoes I bought at Wal-Mart that lasted 3 months? !!!
You get what you pay for but in a global economy you get even less.
Did you ever watch the show on the father of safety restraints? I thought not.
Pretty sure 16g was one major limit where his retinas started to detatch. You'll be safer inthe 57 with a seat belt I'd expect.
BTW, most walls give so your argument needs more justification even to be solid. (I remmeber the drunk driver that ran through the garage of a neighbor...
R U JOKING?
Just take a read of alt.computer.consultants if you want to see a year of really factual analysis of the economic reports (and a bunch of whining).
The economists do not claim globalization has helped the average US person because it has not. Invention have for sure. But any savings due to exporting jobs have been eaten up by the brass and not passed to the consumer. The only help has been the monster of unemployment that has driven us to all be more productive. And I'm not so sure even that is long term beneficial.
You ought to talk to the engineers taking jobs at Dunkin' Donuts before you make claims Offshoring helps the USA. The top 1% of the wealthy maybe.
BTW, here's a riddle for you, "Why does the FED raise rates when pay rates are dropping, unemployment is increasing, and poverty is increasing?"
anon,
I'm serious. Imagine a "amway" sort of thing but really flat with the manufacturers at the top. People order over the net cause they own stock in the "thing". Maybe call it "nostra cosa" or something.
I mean, if I'm buying a broom from WMT I don't mind ordering on the net if it makes me richer.
The bootstrap idea would be to get 100k people to sign up and say they'll shop there. Then start it up.
If you research WMT something like 40% of the employees live in poverty and altogethr make less than the top brass. We'd basically take the money from the brass and pass the savings on to the shopper.
Watcha think?
#1. Auto prices in 1950 were 1x annual salary
Auto prices in 2000 are 2x annual salary
What is your argument for "Comparative Advantage"?
Almost as bad as NBER using its freshmen models to claim the recession ended when employment has not improved, pay rates are falling, taxes are increasing, inflation remains, and poverty has increased like 1.4M people!
Maybe you, like elBushies, do not like the taste of reality.
We can only hope ALL incumbants get fired and the government takes away their retirement packages due to its impending financial insolvency for which they are each directly and personally responsible.
Did you even read the link? Autos today cost 2 times the avg annual salary while in like 1950 they costed 1. That's dramatic. That's offshoring. Same or less for more! You can never convince me the average modern car has anywhere near the quality of the average car made in 1950.
You run into the back of a '55 chevy with your altima and the guy in the chevy drives off with maybe a bent bumper while they are picking up the pieces of your totaled nissan. That happened to a friend of mine but it was a mercedez and not a nissan. Think about it. There's a reason modern cars have crumple zones. Cause their made of plastic and aluminum instead of steel.
Mostly false... e.g. auto prices have risen much faster than inflation during their 50+ years of offshoring. ref: http://concentrationofwealth.blogspot.com/
Only government officials and economists ignore the jobs reality.
Why do not we all set up an "anti-wal-mart"? We decide to shop online at a store we all own some share of and not to shop at wal-mart. If we get a 1M people then it'll be felt.
"The problem with the US economy is that there are not enough highly skilled people willing to work for minimum wage."
http://setiathome.ssl.berkeley.edu/Candidates/SHGb 02+14a/SHGb02+14a.html
:-)
Do not modern wireless IP equipment do f hopping? Maybe some dolt did a WAP11 hack nearby
I'd like some more info on the articles.
1) Is that f not absorbed in space? What? Isn't space filled with H (relative to other elements).
2) How powerful must the xmiter be? That may tell alot.
3) what about com. by gravity? Is gravity instantaneous? though subject to r^2.
4) Any link to signal breakdown? I'd like to look at it in detail.
- the overarching argument about this not being alien seems to be that we do not expect it to be. Also, remember that colonists gave blankets with chicken pox to the American natives. And probably the "new world" was already well established by those "in the know" well before CC. Odds are they know about us. Let's just hope this is their way of saying "Hello".
5) We did signal back with the same signal followed by "hello" followed by the same signal. Didn't we? why not?
6) BTW, what would be the frequency signature of an H bomb reflected from a far away moon?
Thanks,
TimJowers
this is cool. Maybe fun to like metal detecting... can I buy one?
Thanks for the post. I often wondered about replacement costs. Of course, replacing a slacker might not cost too much :-)
I'm reminded of the second hand story about a former co-worker who now works for Intel. For about two years he'd picked up jobs as people left and was doing the work of 3-4 people and it was too much. For about a year he asked for a new hire. Finally Intel gave him the budget: $6k. Get someone in China and start learning Chinese.
Don't breathe that sigh of relief as this might be your last breath (in tech). At least we can all get in shape when we're picking cans from the garbage piles like the husband and wife team outside my apartment this morning!!!
that's what I thought... coprolite. I was thinking a meter was huge but maybe not for a huge animal. Maybe that corresponds to surviving on a cold planet. Another idea is that of an underground animal who left it. It just does not look worn alot so it is hard to say it if it is old. We need closer pictures but I guess by the time the pictures come to NASA it is too late to head back for more? Peculiarities are the stretching in the first half and compression in the second half and that it is not even 1/2 way buried. The picture looks like a slope goes down to the rock from the foregound. Weird and interesting stuff. The lay of the ground looks like a bottom of a wash rather than a sandy area to me. I guess a hot impact would vaporize the gases and maybe leave something like that?
BTW, how does the rover take animated gifs? Tring to find pictures of surrounding area.
Looks like it was formed in a watery animal. Scat (such as Dinosaur coprolite) is what it looks like. Mars poop Ca poop Earth poop
Oh? Is that what the hats are for? I thought that a was a new style out here so I put one on myself. :-)
Keeps the head cool in the sun but you get a real headache near low power lines.
On Topic, programmers are getting beat to death like the auto workers and steel workers in the 80's. By dimantling the middle class one industry sector at a time, the rest of the middle class ignores it. Unfo. for the elitists there's a snapback effect once a critical mass is reached. Perhaps they think by extending the process over 50 years the effect will not occur? I theorized while studying Western Cic. in HS that about 18% of the people have to get really pissed and then they start protests and then the snapback snowballs. When you see people actively attacking the elitist governemnt, then you are seeing that people are pissed. :-)
,Budget Surplus or Deficit (-) as % GDP,Cyclical Surplus or Deficit (-) as % GDP,Other Adjustments as % GDP,Surplus or Deficit (-) as % GDP,Revenues as % GDP,Outlays as % GDP,Debt (100B),Debt as % of GDP,Debt as % of Tax Income (x100),GDP (100T),Debt,Tax Income (100B),Tax Income (B),Tax Income as % of GDP (x100)
1962,-1.2,-0.4,0.1,-0.7,17.3,18,,,,,,0.5,46.5,
1963,-0.8,-0.3,-0.1,-0.6,17.5,18.1,,,,,,0.5,49.1,
1964,-0.9,0.3,0.2,-1,17,18,,,,,,0.5,46,
1965,-0.2,0.8,0.2,-0.8,16.2,17,,,,,,0.5,51.1,
1966,-0.5,1.9,0.4,-2.1,15.9,18,,,,,,0.6,58.6,
1967,-1.1,1.7,*,-2.8,16.9,19.7,,,,,,0.6,64.4,
1968,-3,1.4,0.6,-3.7,16.5,20.3,4,,4.7%,, $358.00 ,0.8,76.4,
1969,0.4,1.6,*,-1.2,17.7,18.9,4,,4.0%,, $368.00 ,0.9,91.7,
1970,-0.3,0.6,0.2,-0.6,17.8,18.4,4,,4.4%,, $389.00 ,0.9,88.9,
1971,-2.1,-0.3,0.9,-0.9,17.1,18.1,4,,4.9%,, $424.00 ,0.9,85.8,
1972,-2,*,0.3,-1.7,16.9,18.6,4,,4.2%,, $429.00 ,1.0,102.8,
1973,-1.2,1.2,0.6,-1.7,16.7,18.4,5,,4.3%,, $469.00 ,1.1,109.6,
1974,-0.4,0.7,1.3,0.1,17.7,17.6,5,0.3%,3.9%,1.5, $492.00 ,1.3,126.5,8.4%
1975,-3.3,-1.4,2,0.1,18.5,18.4,6,0.4%,4.8%,1.6, $576.00 ,1.2,120.7,7.5%
1976,-4.1,-1.4,0.8,-2,17.3,19.3,7,0.4%,4.6%,1.8, $653.00 ,1.4,141.2,7.8%
1977,-2.7,-0.6,1,-1.1,17.8,18.9,7,0.4%,4.4%,2, $718.00 ,1.6,162.2,8.1%
1978,-2.7,0.1,1.3,-1.5,17.5,19.1,8,0.3%,4.2%,2.3, $789.00 ,1.9,188.9,8.2%
1979,-1.6,0.5,1.4,-0.7,17.9,18.6,8,0.3%,3.8%,2.6, $845.00 ,2.2,224.6,8.6%
1980,-2.7,-0.7,1.6,-0.4,18.8,19.2,9,0.3%,3.7%,2.8, $930.00 ,2.5,250,8.9%
1981,-2.5,-0.9,1.2,-0.4,19.5,19.9,10,0.3%,3.5%,3.1 ," $1,028.00 ",2.9,290.6,9.4%
1982,-3.7,-2,0.7,-1.1,19.2,20.3,12,0.4%,4.1%,3.3," $1,197.00 "
National Debt (well, basically embezzlement by the politicians and their cronies) is just one reason. Take a look at the last page of this link and see pure embezzlement from our government: embezzlement?. Who's stupid enough to vote for an incumbant? Bush and Kerry are both incumbants. They should both tear their clothes, gnash their teeth, and ask the American people to pray for a better government. They don't.
I was looking at the debt before and got some numbers from various US gov. web sites. Amazingly the dis-information campaign has not shut these down. Funny thing is that it has increased ever since like 1962 but Democrats claim Clinton had a Balanced Budget. This FALSE accounting is nonsense. Ask a kid in school if spending more than you take in is a Balanced Budget. That said, the administration prior to this one did do alot better. The USA cannot afford another Republican government if you believe that relates to the debt trendline. We will be bankrupted and forced into servitude to a world government/bank. "Don't cry for me Argentina...."
First look at the situation for UK and Canada. UK
Canada
These can be graphed in Excel... I did not find a good site with the chart on the web.
From the user perspective this is just free. Free is good and then the monopoly includes a free database in its OS. Gee, Linux is beating them to the punches. They gotta be fuming. And looking for some new tricks. Oh yeah, no mention of Interbase or Firebird here yet. PostGreSQL and that are probably the next things for me to check out.
OK. You take the stored procedures and I'll take the table structure :-0
Just kidding. But seriously, let's make an XML schema representing relational data and get all the vendors to conform to that! Oh yeah!
Nah, just joking. Not really. Seriously. Run db-orginal and db-ingres side by side. Then lets convert all results from each database to XML so we can compare the conversion results with a single, lightening fast string compare!
I deserveth at least $100,000 for the design!
BTW, reminds me of that pitiful $1M bounty to customers by Oracle to demonstrate a faster database. I heard Oracle's license agreement prohibits actually publishing the actual numbers. That's one way to state you re the best, outlaw anyone else arguing with you. What's that religion by that science fiction writer that sues people when they try to expose it?
Those darn hardware companies just won't write new drivers for old hardware on new windows. I gave up on my old qickcam. Better to try Linux :-)
Sean,
IE was not even close to being the first. I first used cern browser in '93 I think... soon thereafter there were some really cool browsers that had tabs, session metaphors, etc. And Netscape Mozilla supported multi-threaded browsing. Broken now? Probably Gopher and other command line stuff should be considered too....
Windows seems to get less ready for my desktop every passing month. Bloatware is the main problem. When I have to wait 20+ seconds for an app to restore or wait a few minutes when I come back into work the next day, I wonder, "has Microsoft learned nothing about scheduling for the user" which was so touted as a Sun innovation back in '92 when I took my BSCE OS course. Never mind trying to name a file ".htaccess" from the file explorer or even the lack of File Manager quick file management abilities in file Explorer.
Guess I gotta make the break soon...
TimJowers
Is that a vacant lot or an office building? :-)
Remember when Teraserver first came out and you could zoom into a frame covering about 200 yds.? i think that was it. Well, so much for decades old russian spy satellites and good free stuff. Ebay ought to buy satellite imaging service from NASA and get some real security checks going. Talk about authentication! How about this:
"Before responding to this email to sign up, please go outside and wave your arms at the satellite". "Sorry, we did not see you. Please jump like a chicken and do a roll on the sidewalk". "OK, your auction has started". (Replace "wave" with a radom action in order to prevent software and robotic signups.:-)
timjowers
You might find out this is a ring of people. We had some hackers attack back in 1998 on our ISP. Turned out to be a ring. Part of it was from an ISP in NY and they pointed to a kid who hung out at the ISP. FBI visited some other dude in Boston. We tracked some others to out in LA.
You see, the mafia is quite profitably making money in fraud and maybe just has this alias as a patsy.
Wikipedia is the coolest thing on the Web.
I've entered a few articles myself and most of the time only to be usurped by an even more knowledgeable expert. Now that's using the power of collaboration. That's the future. Wikipedia is decades ahead of Microsoft and a decade ahead of even most other Open Source/Open Collaboration efforts. A century ahead of law practices, engineering firms, medical experts? Probably.
My $.02,
Tim Jowers