The first time I saw a chip from a pyramid block (yes, a real chip, illegal as hell, never should've been even picked up, much less smuggled out of Egypt and put into my hands).. my first reaction was: "This isn't stone, this isn't limestone! This is cement! Crappy cement, yeah, but cement never the less."
Nothing's changed my opinion since. I guess I'd have to go to the quarry onsite and personally examine the raw material there (right next to where a block had been quarried). Or have another friend get me another chip from there:-)
I should've made an outrageous offer for that first chip, I know. Knew it then too, but the owner was so proud of himself, and so fascinated with it himself. Sigh.. lost opportunity, of the criminal kind true, but still...
My opinion? Gambling occurs where the gambler sits. If it's in the US, the US has the right (responsibility? nanny state? Let's not go there, eh? That's not the point.) to control what that gambler does.
I don't care where the poker robot is; I don't care where the virtual roulette wheel spins. And I don't care where the node is that links gamblers around the world.
Where the gambler sits is where the gambling occurs. And therein is the jurisdiction.
The fact that gamblers (mostly) are damned fools, that internet gambling is HUGELY vulnerable to scams and fraud, that victims worldwide will have no recourse whatsoever... No matter.
You gamble from my country, from my state, from my county, from my city: that's the jurisdiction. Taxes too, by the way. And if you get cheated, you can sue in YOUR court, not some flea-bitten island somewhere.
Fully agree. Anyone using a phone (or any other telecommunications device) in a moving vehicle is guilty of criminal negligence, an accident waiting to happen.
Ditto with headphones, TVs, video games, even involved conversations!
Pay attention to what the HELL you're doing, which is trying NOT to kill other people (and yourself).. presumably.
You need to be able to find every single (significant) control in your car.. in the dark.. without looking. If you can't, you aren't qualified to use that vehicle.
All this is very interesting. Too bad Tor doesn't work as advertised. Just installed it on my Win2K system, plugged in the Firefox plugin.. and lost my Internet. Privoxy pops up, says I have no connectivity (doh), says it might just be temporary (it's not).. not very useful.
Settings mean nothing to me, defaults should work but don't. Disable Tor (via the handy button at the bottom right of Firefox's screen) and all is working again.
Who says it'll all come down? Just the part earth-side of the break will drop, the rest will go outwards.
And the part coming down is going to drop _straight_ down, not wrap around anything at all.. just pile up in a big heap. And since the anchor site is offshore, it'll be underwater at that, easily salvaged (if you wanted to).
You haven't worked the physics of this thing out yet, have you?
Wuss! Those old systems were always a challenge, demanding imagination!
Like using video memory for a sort buffer:-) Hey, there was 64KB not being used for anything else at the moment.. why not? Made for an interesting light show while the sort was going on:-)
Yeah, I remember it well. All of us rooting for good old Phil.. even though we kind of suspected he'd ripped off the code anyway.
When he lost the law suit, that kind of drove the nail in his coffin.
I was glad to see him come out with PKZIP.. but even more glad when we found the unzip.c source code written by yet another fellow (back engineered and not stolen, so far as we could tell).
Then someone else wrote a zip.c.. and then we started porting it.. and Info-ZIP was born. I think The Info-ZIP Workgroup was maybe one of the first big distributed programming efforts in the world, via Usenet. I was the moderator for a year or so, sure was interesting. Funny sillinesses.. had to get the crypto portions hacked in France since the US wouldn't let us export it:-) (dumb)
Cave Newt (Greg Roelofs) took it over when I started getting out of my depth. But I was glad to be a part of the effort. Think I still have a minor credit somewhere in the documentation ("David Kirschbaum, who got us all into this mess in the first place")
Zip got ported from everything from a Commodore C-64 to a Cray.. for free. Not too shabby.
Through it all, Phil Katz never said an official thing about the group or our effort.
I _speet_ on your puny feelthy steenking Iomega drives! There's an old 10MB 5.25" external hard drive up in the attack (goes with my old Compupro multiuser system), power supply that can dim the houselights, capacitors the size of beer cans...
The problem is identifying the miscreants. If the system can't (or won't) identify spammers now, will they then when a tax is in place? I don't think so.
If you can identify the spammers, you can prosecute them. It doesn't take a tax. We simply refuse to force the system to identify all senders. Why should ANYONE be permitted to send ANYTHING unless the sender can be identified by anyone? Tell me again how a legitimate Internet user can be harmed by his identity being known and linked to his email, hmmmmm?
It's quite simple for any node to reject any email that doesn't have a verifiable (and existing) sender. Nodes don't have to check ALL the email that passes through; just enough of it to eventually identify and filter out any spam.
Then ANYONE should be able to identify (and shut down or prosecute) the actual spam senders.
End of problem.
(Although the PGP signature on every single email message was a good idea too.)
Our problem is that the fix appears to be in for the spammers.. or (more likely) too many folks (especially right here at Slashdot) are paranoid about identity protection and the First Amendment.
It seems that it would probably be all right for someone to burst into my living room, in a black hood, and scream obscenities and death threats. In fact, from what I read here, people have the RIGHT to burst into my living room...
Buy one from an estate sale, from an elderly aunt, from an antique dealer. Have a jeweler examine it and give you an idea of its quality.
It'll be just as pretty, just as diamondy, you'll be poking the commercial diamond industry in the eye, and you'll be giving a new life to an old ring.
Sorry, but the EULA DID say it was going to remove Ad-Aware. And it advised you to uninstall it yourself.
Saw it myself. The last version distributed removes NOTHING.. but the one before that had a VERY BIG full-window announcement, as part of the install, that said exactly that. No small print. No hidden down at the very end, buried in the text. NOTHING like that. Painfully obvious what was going to happen. And, of course, at any point you could abort the install.
So all the howls about trojans and oblivious users are meaningless. The user WAS clearly informed.
As to whether this is a good marketing scheme is not the issue. The ethics of removing some other program's components is not the issue. The user was informed, the user had a choice. THAT is the issue.
"In December 1950 production began on the F-86E. This version featured a revised control system which incorporated an all-flying tail with linked elevators, power boosting for the tail controls and artificial "feel" for all control surfaces. "
Toad-san
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Your very own, politically incorrect but ever-so-satisfying, urinal screen, ready to be printed, trimmed, and distributed:
No, I didn't invent this concept. It was done (and far better) back in 1970 or so, by some unsung hero (we suspect in one of the PSYOP battalions at Fort Bragg NC). The image on THAT urinal screen, of course, was our beloved Hanoi Jane:-)
I had no problems with bricks whatsoever (well, until I ran out of extra bricks). I taped the postage-paid envelope or postcard right to the top of the raw red brick, so there was no question what I was doing.
The postman thought it funnier than hell, and faithfully carried my postage-paid reply downtown.. where the workers THERE carefully processed it by hand.
I have a feeling the hearty laughs enjoyed by all (except for the suckers paying the postage, of course) probably _inhibited_ some of the workers "going postal".
You know the only sensitive thing about what's in that "box" the FBI wants to install at the ISPs?
The list of criminals, of course! There's probably no due process (e.g., there might be suspects there). They're trying to protect the list! Sure, the ISPs could run some sniffer code simply enough.. but the list of suspects, the sites the FBI wants monitored, would be right there in the clear, available for any ISP employee (and any hacker) to copy and distribute.
Which I'm sure all would agree is not a Good Thing.
As for the boxes having the potential of being switches, of shutting down the Internet, what a load of hooey! All the ISP has to do is unplug the damned thing.
I'd be concerned about privacy issues, yes, like who authorizes the names on the lists. Are the judges with the court orders in fact informed? Can anyone check on them? If the FBI has a pet judge, can ANYONE's name get on that list?
That's what the issue is. Ignore that Cringely idiot. He may have good points at time, but he can be dumb as a brick too.
Hey, guys! Guess what? Yep, I have copies of "CP4break.zip" AND "cphack.exe" on my web site! As do dozens of my buddies! Matter of fact, we even have a mailing list to distribute these packages as wide and as far as we possibly can.. in the US and overseas as well!
Aren't you going to have fun finding them all?
Please, PLEASE send me a subpoena too! I'd like ever so much to have one of my very own.
Because I don't own squat.
Why don't you jerks wake up and tell your employers (those morons at Microsystems Software, Inc. and Mattel, Inc.) to FIX the problem instead of trying to hide it!
Oh.. tell those idiots to be SURE to put my web page on their banned list. That'll really make me feel bad, yes it will.
Hell, in these days it'll be an HONOR!
Oh.. and you can bite me too. I mean that in the nicest possible way, of course.
Bah! Howdy Doody was doing this in the 50's! Does anyone ELSE remember his train? The one with the wings, and the ship's prow.. lessee, what else did it have? The first all-terrain vehicle, that's for sure!
The Russkis have been "flying" a monstrous ground-effect vehicle for years over one of their huge lakes up Siberia-way. Never gets over 50 feet or so above the water, has jet turbines stuck on every possible horizontal surface (and a few vertical ones as well).. but it works. Probably the largest "flying" object in the world. Yep, ground effect's neat, for sure. And being on rails, that'll take care of the pesky control problems most of these type vehicles have.
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Yep, nobody is gonna force me to watch anything. That's what the "x" box in the upper right hand corner is for.
If an ad comes on, that isn't what I asked to see, so I stop it. Just that simple. Screw 'em.
The first time I saw a chip from a pyramid block (yes, a real chip, illegal as hell, never should've been even picked up, much less smuggled out of Egypt and put into my hands) .. my first reaction was: "This isn't stone, this isn't limestone! This is cement! Crappy cement, yeah, but cement never the less."
:-)
.. lost opportunity, of the criminal kind true, but still ...
Nothing's changed my opinion since. I guess I'd have to go to the quarry onsite and personally examine the raw material there (right next to where a block had been quarried). Or have another friend get me another chip from there
I should've made an outrageous offer for that first chip, I know. Knew it then too, but the owner was so proud of himself, and so fascinated with it himself. Sigh
My opinion? Gambling occurs where the gambler sits. If it's in the US, the US has the right (responsibility? nanny state? Let's not go there, eh? That's not the point.) to control what that gambler does.
... No matter.
I don't care where the poker robot is; I don't care where the virtual roulette wheel spins. And I don't care where the node is that links gamblers around the world.
Where the gambler sits is where the gambling occurs. And therein is the jurisdiction.
The fact that gamblers (mostly) are damned fools, that internet gambling is HUGELY vulnerable to scams and fraud, that victims worldwide will have no recourse whatsoever
You gamble from my country, from my state, from my county, from my city: that's the jurisdiction. Taxes too, by the way. And if you get cheated, you can sue in YOUR court, not some flea-bitten island somewhere.
Screw the World Court.
Fully agree. Anyone using a phone (or any other telecommunications device) in a moving vehicle is guilty of criminal negligence, an accident waiting to happen.
Ditto with headphones, TVs, video games, even involved conversations!
Pay attention to what the HELL you're doing, which is trying NOT to kill other people (and yourself)
You need to be able to find every single (significant) control in your car
All this is very interesting. Too bad Tor doesn't work as advertised. Just installed it on my Win2K system, plugged in the Firefox plugin .. and lost my Internet. Privoxy pops up, says I have no connectivity (doh), says it might just be temporary (it's not) .. not very useful.
Settings mean nothing to me, defaults should work but don't. Disable Tor (via the handy button at the bottom right of Firefox's screen) and all is working again.
So much for privacy.
Who says it'll all come down? Just the part earth-side of the break will drop, the rest will go outwards.
.. just pile up in a big heap. And since the anchor site is offshore, it'll be underwater at that, easily salvaged (if you wanted to).
And the part coming down is going to drop _straight_ down, not wrap around anything at all
You haven't worked the physics of this thing out yet, have you?
Consider locating others with your same problem in your neighborhood or area.
All pool together in a T1 line (or convince a local business to do it).
Then use radio links (which can reach kilometers these days with the right antenna) to connect the members of the group to the T1 owner.
Might be well worth the effort / coordination, you'd all get high speed, the T1 owner would become a mini-ISP.
My stepson and I seriously thought about this before we finally got Roadrunner (and now DSL).
Wuss! Those old systems were always a challenge, demanding imagination!
:-) Hey, there was 64KB not being used for anything else at the moment .. why not? Made for an interesting light show while the sort was going on :-)
Like using video memory for a sort buffer
Yeah, I remember it well. All of us rooting for good old Phil .. even though we kind of suspected he'd ripped off the code anyway.
.. but even more glad when we found the unzip.c source code written by yet another fellow (back engineered and not stolen, so far as we could tell).
.. and then we started porting it .. and Info-ZIP was born. I think The Info-ZIP Workgroup was maybe one of the first big distributed programming efforts in the world, via Usenet. I was the moderator for a year or so, sure was interesting. Funny sillinesses .. had to get the crypto portions hacked in France since the US wouldn't let us export it :-) (dumb)
.. for free. Not too shabby.
When he lost the law suit, that kind of drove the nail in his coffin.
I was glad to see him come out with PKZIP
Then someone else wrote a zip.c
Cave Newt (Greg Roelofs) took it over when I started getting out of my depth. But I was glad to be a part of the effort. Think I still have a minor credit somewhere in the documentation ("David Kirschbaum, who got us all into this mess in the first place")
Zip got ported from everything from a Commodore C-64 to a Cray
Through it all, Phil Katz never said an official thing about the group or our effort.
David Kirschbaum
Ex-moderator, Info-ZIP Workgroup
When are we going to take those idiots at the Patent Office out and shoot them all?
.. any collection of rational citizens could do a better job than they at rejecting the obvious.
Gods
Actually, I submit a local Hells Angel chapter could do as well.
I _speet_ on your puny feelthy steenking Iomega drives! There's an old 10MB 5.25" external hard drive up in the attack (goes with my old Compupro multiuser system), power supply that can dim the houselights, capacitors the size of beer cans ...
What a stupid idea.
.. or (more likely) too many folks (especially right here at Slashdot) are paranoid about identity protection and the First Amendment.
...
...
The problem is identifying the miscreants. If the system can't (or won't) identify spammers now, will they then when a tax is in place? I don't think so.
If you can identify the spammers, you can prosecute them. It doesn't take a tax. We simply refuse to force the system to identify all senders. Why should ANYONE be permitted to send ANYTHING unless the sender can be identified by anyone? Tell me again how a legitimate Internet user can be harmed by his identity being known and linked to his email, hmmmmm?
It's quite simple for any node to reject any email that doesn't have a verifiable (and existing) sender. Nodes don't have to check ALL the email that passes through; just enough of it to eventually identify and filter out any spam.
Then ANYONE should be able to identify (and shut down or prosecute) the actual spam senders.
End of problem.
(Although the PGP signature on every single email message was a good idea too.)
Our problem is that the fix appears to be in for the spammers
It seems that it would probably be all right for someone to burst into my living room, in a black hood, and scream obscenities and death threats. In fact, from what I read here, people have the RIGHT to burst into my living room
But I digress
Buy one from an estate sale, from an elderly aunt, from an antique dealer. Have a jeweler examine it and give you an idea of its quality.
It'll be just as pretty, just as diamondy, you'll be poking the commercial diamond industry in the eye, and you'll be giving a new life to an old ring.
Sorry, but the EULA DID say it was going to remove Ad-Aware. And it advised you to uninstall it yourself.
.. but the one before that had a VERY BIG full-window announcement, as part of the install, that said exactly that. No small print. No hidden down at the very end, buried in the text. NOTHING like that. Painfully obvious what was going to happen. And, of course, at any point you could abort the install.
Saw it myself. The last version distributed removes NOTHING
So all the howls about trojans and oblivious users are meaningless. The user WAS clearly informed.
As to whether this is a good marketing scheme is not the issue. The ethics of removing some other program's components is not the issue. The user was informed, the user had a choice. THAT is the issue.
Toad-san
And the F-86 had it in the 50's:
"In December 1950 production began on the F-86E. This version featured a revised control system which incorporated an all-flying tail with linked elevators, power boosting for the tail controls and artificial "feel" for all control surfaces. "
Toad-san
Your very own, politically incorrect but ever-so-satisfying, urinal screen, ready to be printed, trimmed, and distributed:
n _U rine.JPG
:-)
http://www.oddworldz.com/toad/Graphics/Osama_bi
No, I didn't invent this concept. It was done (and far better) back in 1970 or so, by some unsung hero (we suspect in one of the PSYOP battalions at Fort Bragg NC). The image on THAT urinal screen, of course, was our beloved Hanoi Jane
I had no problems with bricks whatsoever (well, until I ran out of extra bricks). I taped the postage-paid envelope or postcard right to the top of the raw red brick, so there was no question what I was doing.
.. where the workers THERE carefully processed it by hand.
The postman thought it funnier than hell, and faithfully carried my postage-paid reply downtown
I have a feeling the hearty laughs enjoyed by all (except for the suckers paying the postage, of course) probably _inhibited_ some of the workers "going postal".
It sure does stop the mailing though.
Wish I could find the equivalent for spammers.
You know the only sensitive thing about what's in that "box" the FBI wants to install at the ISPs?
.. but the list of suspects, the sites the FBI wants monitored, would be right there in the clear, available for any ISP employee (and any hacker) to copy and distribute.
The list of criminals, of course! There's probably no due process (e.g., there might be suspects there). They're trying to protect the list! Sure, the ISPs could run some sniffer code simply enough
Which I'm sure all would agree is not a Good Thing.
As for the boxes having the potential of being switches, of shutting down the Internet, what a load of hooey! All the ISP has to do is unplug the damned thing.
I'd be concerned about privacy issues, yes, like who authorizes the names on the lists. Are the judges with the court orders in fact informed? Can anyone check on them? If the FBI has a pet judge, can ANYONE's name get on that list?
That's what the issue is. Ignore that Cringely idiot. He may have good points at time, but he can be dumb as a brick too.
To: ischwartz@schwartz-nystrom.com
.. in the US and overseas as well!
.. tell those idiots to be SURE to put my web page on their banned list. That'll really make me feel bad, yes it will.
.. and you can bite me too. I mean that in the nicest possible way, of course.
Hey, guys! Guess what? Yep, I have copies of "CP4break.zip" AND "cphack.exe" on my web site! As do dozens of my buddies! Matter of fact, we even have a mailing list to distribute these packages as wide and as far as we possibly can
Aren't you going to have fun finding them all?
Please, PLEASE send me a subpoena too! I'd like ever so much to have one of my very own.
Because I don't own squat.
Why don't you jerks wake up and tell your employers (those morons at Microsystems Software, Inc. and Mattel, Inc.) to FIX the problem instead of trying to hide it!
Oh
Hell, in these days it'll be an HONOR!
Oh
Toad
Bah! Howdy Doody was doing this in the 50's! Does anyone ELSE remember his train? The one with the wings, and the ship's prow .. lessee, what else did it have? The first all-terrain vehicle, that's for sure!
.. but it works. Probably the largest "flying" object in the world. Yep, ground effect's neat, for sure. And being on rails, that'll take care of the pesky control problems most of these type vehicles have.
The Russkis have been "flying" a monstrous ground-effect vehicle for years over one of their huge lakes up Siberia-way. Never gets over 50 feet or so above the water, has jet turbines stuck on every possible horizontal surface (and a few vertical ones as well)
Sigh .. everything has to be spelled out to you young whippersnappers :-(
.. and it has MUCH longer legs than the Heinlein of that era :-)
So nobody has heard of the Wandering Jew? That legend has disappeared completely?
Alas.
Another earlier response speaks of the character of Lazarus desperately calling for fleshing out.
It's been done, folks.
But Canticle was a great read when I first encountered it (probably as a teenager)
Toad-san
Been there, done that. All my stuff is gone, and nothing remains but a greyout page (available from the Boycott Yahoo Home Page).
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http://www.geocities.com/CapeCanaveral/Station/
I can't believe the nerve of those jerks. I used to have a great deal of respect for them, but that sure has ended abruptly!
I also emailed Yahoo with my complaint.