I'd be greatly surprised if power lines were transmitting DC. One of the main, historical advantages of AC is that it is much, much easier to transform voltage up and down, making transmission viable.
Likewise, many would argue that the instructions you can find on the net to make bombs, crystal meth or the alt.suicide.holiday FAQs are protected free speech. I'd find far less use for any of those three things than I would with the source code for virusses, which at least present interesting technical reading.
The government is rapidly trying to take away these dangerous free speech rights by attempting to revoke your right to spread drug or explosive manufacturing information or even to "desecrate" a piece a cloth with 50 stars and 13 stripes on it in a certain arrangement and color scheme.
The Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act (S.R. 486), would make it a 10-year felony to "distribute by any means information pertaining to... the manufacture or use of a controlled substance, knowing that such person intends to use the... information... in an activity that constitutes a federal crime."
This, of course, makes perfect sense. According to an October 1999 NPCA Policy Report, the expected punishment for murder is 41 months, and we all know dissemenating drug information is worse than murder. Burglary and assault's expected sentences were less than 20 days each!
Furthermore, an amendment which was tacked onto the Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability and Rehabilitation Act prohibits teaching or demonstrating how to make explosives with the "intent" that the information will be used to commit a federal crime. This has been a law for quite some time now.
In other words, don't be too sure about your "Constitutionally guaranteed" free speech rights; you might be committing "offsensive" or "dangerous" acts.
I agree with you though. The Sun Type 5c is an incredible keyboard. I'd love to find one that would work with my PC.
I've been wanting one of these for a long time. One time I found a UK company selling a keyboard they advertised as a Sun Type 5 Keyboard for the PC, only it cost over 200 pounds. I've even thought about buying a Sun one and trying to build a converter:)
The Windows keys do serve a purpoise, but only if you're running Windows with Litestep. (You can set shortcuts like Windows+L to run a passworded screensaver, etc...)
Try the following key combinations when in Windows sometime: Win-E - Brings up explorer (my favorite) Win-M - Minimizes all windows (second favorite) Win-Shift-M - Unminimizes all windows Win-R - Brings up run dialog (very nice) Win-Pause - Brings up system properties dialog
It'd be a lot nicer, though, if there was an easy way to map them yourself in Windows.
Now if I could just map the Windows keys (under X)to "Alt" and the little "Context Menu Key" to "Super" I'd have Ctrl, Meta, Alt and Super on my keyboard!
IIRC, if you choose a 104 key layout in X, the Windows key is already bound to Meta. I don't know if it maps the Context Menu Key (most worthless key ever) to anything, though.
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I'd be greatly surprised if power lines were transmitting DC. One of the main, historical advantages of AC is that it is much, much easier to transform voltage up and down, making transmission viable.
Try my mutt patch which enables LibESMTP support. Let me know how it goes.
Likewise, many would argue that the instructions you can find on the net to make bombs, crystal meth or the alt.suicide.holiday FAQs are protected free speech. I'd find far less use for any of those three things than I would with the source code for virusses, which at least present interesting technical reading.
The government is rapidly trying to take away these dangerous free speech rights by attempting to revoke your right to spread drug or explosive manufacturing information or even to "desecrate" a piece a cloth with 50 stars and 13 stripes on it in a certain arrangement and color scheme.
The Methamphetamine Anti-Proliferation Act (S.R. 486), would make it a 10-year felony to "distribute by any means information pertaining to... the manufacture or use of a controlled substance, knowing that such person intends to use the... information... in an activity that constitutes a federal crime."
This, of course, makes perfect sense. According to an October 1999 NPCA Policy Report, the expected punishment for murder is 41 months, and we all know dissemenating drug information is worse than murder. Burglary and assault's expected sentences were less than 20 days each!
Furthermore, an amendment which was tacked onto the Violent and Repeat Juvenile Offender Accountability and Rehabilitation Act prohibits teaching or demonstrating how to make explosives with the "intent" that the information will be used to commit a federal crime. This has been a law for quite some time now.
In other words, don't be too sure about your "Constitutionally guaranteed" free speech rights; you might be committing "offsensive" or "dangerous" acts.
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Steven Engelhardt
sengel@interaccess.com
I agree with you though. The Sun Type 5c is an incredible keyboard. I'd love to find one that would work with my PC.
I've been wanting one of these for a long time. One time I found a UK company selling a keyboard they advertised as a Sun Type 5 Keyboard for the PC, only it cost over 200 pounds. I've even thought about buying a Sun one and trying to build a converter :)
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Steven Engelhardt
sengel@interaccess.com
The Windows keys do serve a purpoise, but only if you're running Windows with Litestep. (You can set shortcuts like Windows+L to run a passworded screensaver, etc...)
Try the following key combinations when in Windows sometime:
Win-E - Brings up explorer (my favorite)
Win-M - Minimizes all windows (second favorite)
Win-Shift-M - Unminimizes all windows
Win-R - Brings up run dialog (very nice)
Win-Pause - Brings up system properties dialog
It'd be a lot nicer, though, if there was an easy way to map them yourself in Windows.
Now if I could just map the Windows keys (under X)to "Alt" and the little "Context Menu Key" to "Super" I'd have Ctrl, Meta, Alt and Super on my keyboard!
IIRC, if you choose a 104 key layout in X, the Windows key is already bound to Meta. I don't know if it maps the Context Menu Key (most worthless key ever) to anything, though.
--
Steven Engelhardt
sengel@interaccess.com