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  1. Changing careers on Switching from Another Industry to Engineering/CS? · · Score: 1

    Why does this bring to mind Michael Jordan deciding he wants to play baseball?

    Grass always appears greener in someone elses yard.

    Stick to saving lives... in the long run you will be thankful

  2. Re:How geniuses come to be on Justin Frankel On AOL, Subverting The Status Quo · · Score: 1

    Actually I found the women in Sedona to be sincere and loving, but many have given up on finding a guy who is also gentle... most are tired of the loose cannon types of men.. you know, like judging and pigeon holing them... gratifying the male ego... needing to destroy others so that the male can feel more powerful... that sort of thing.

    Most of the women I know in the Sedona area are looking for a man who can come from a position of love instead of fear.

  3. Re:How geniuses come to be on Justin Frankel On AOL, Subverting The Status Quo · · Score: 1

    It was not my intention to tell all about Sedona...

    it was voted the most beautiful city in America this year and the beauty of the red rocks attract many individuals, and the vortexs (vortices) of energy that bring forth multi-dimensional experiences that also attracts many also.

    Lots of channelers, tarot readers, thousands of astrologers there as well as also home of one of the world's largest dowser clubs.

    Also music, poetry, and art... Maybe that is why there are so many left handers there... creators from the right brain.

    A lovely place with lovely people who are learning to follow their hearts.

    Did I mention that the ratio of women to men is 9 to 1. Cottonwood, a town 20 miles away from Sedona has a ratio of 11 to 1 ... women to men.

    Even techies can find a nice woman there.

  4. Re:How geniuses come to be on Justin Frankel On AOL, Subverting The Status Quo · · Score: 1

    Sounds like a good mom to have... not uptight or fearful of what the neighbors will be thinking.

    Many Buddhist in Sedona... Stupa built there as well. Lots of orange and maroon in town.

    I use to work in a TV repair shop. I have always loved to fix things and still do whether it is software, firmware or hardware. When possible I go to the 'chip' level. So I understand some of why you liked dragging home old TV's from the dump. I am bitten by the same bug.

  5. Re:How geniuses come to be on Justin Frankel On AOL, Subverting The Status Quo · · Score: 1

    That is one advantage of being raised and living in Sedona, AZ

    Individuals living there tend to follow their heart and not the mind. Doing those things they are guided to do internally and answering only to themselves.

    As a side note: the population of Sedona who are left handed approach 50% where elsewhere it is approx. 9% of the population.

    Sedona is also a most spiritual place to be.

    I live on Coffeepot Drive in Sedona... named after a large red rock cliff shaped like a coffee pot.

    also home to Chris Spheeris

  6. Re:DVI has copy protection on DVD Player With DVI Output · · Score: 1

    tenses do not always need to match... take for instance

    Before Abraham was, I am. - Jesus(KJV) Jn:8:58

  7. Re:It not as if they were silent partners on Record Labels Sue Napster's VC · · Score: 1

    I definitely agree... anyone named Hummer could not be a silent partner...

  8. Re:Theo's 'oil grab' comment... "why Iraq?" on DARPA Grant Cancelled for OpenBSD and U-Penn? · · Score: 1

    This information came my way. A lot of it resonated with me and I pass it on here for those readers whom might be interested in this thought process.

    Anyone is free to circulate this document provided it is complete and in its current form with attribution and no payment is asked. It is prohibited to reproduce this document or any part of it for commercial gain without the prior permission of the author. For such permission, contact the author at gheard@surf.net.au

    mailto:gheard@surf.net.au

    It's not about oil or Iraq. It's about the US and Europe going head-to-head on world economic dominance.
    Summary: Why is George Bush so hell bent on war with Iraq? Why does his administration reject every positive Iraqi move? It all makes sense when you consider the economic implications for the USA of not going to war with Iraq. The war in Iraq is actually the US and Europe going head to head on economic leadership of the world. America's Bush administration has been caught in outright lies, gross exaggerations and incredible inaccuracies as it trotted out its litany of paper thin excuses for making war on Iraq. Along with its two supporters, Britain and Australia, it has shifted its ground and reversed its position
    with a barefaced contempt for its audience. It has manipulated information, deceived by commission and omission and ntically
    "bought" UN votes with billion dollar bribes.

    Faced with the failure of gaining UN Security Council support for invading Iraq, the USA has threatened to invade without authorisation. It would act in breach of the UN's very constitution to allegedly enforced UN resolutions. It is plain bizarre. Where does this desperation for war come from? There are many things driving President Bush and his administration to
    invade Iraq, unseat Saddam Hussein and take over the country. But the biggest one is hidden and very, very simple. It is about the currency used to trade oil and consequently, who will dominate the world economically, in the foreseeable future -- the USA or the European Union. Iraq is a European Union beachhead in that confrontation. America had a monopoly on the oil trade, with the US dollar being the fiat currency, but Iraq broke ranks in 1999, started to trade oil in the EU's euros, and
    profited. If America invades Iraq and takes over, it will hurl the EU and its euro back into the sea and make America's position as the dominant economic power in the world all but impregnable. It is the biggest grab for world power in modern times. America's allies in the invasion, Britain and Australia, are betting America will win and that they will get some trickle-down benefits for jumping on to the US bandwagon.

    France and Germany are the spearhead of the European force -- Russia would like to go European but possibly can still be bought off. Presumably, China would like to see the Europeans build a share of international trade currency ownership at this point while it continues to grow its international trading presence to the point where it, too, can share the leadership rewards.

    DEBATE BUILDING ON THE INTERNET
    Oddly, little or nothing is appearing in the general media about this issue, although key people are becoming aware of it -- note the recent slide in the value of the US dollar. Are traders afraid of war? They are more likely to be afraid there will not be war.

    But despite the silence in the general media, a major world discussion is developing around this issue, particularly on the Internet. Among the many articles: Henry Liu, in the 'Asia Times' last June, it has been a hot topic on the Feasta forum, an Irish-based group exploring sustainable economics, and W. Clark's "The Real Reasons for the Upcoming War with Iraq: A Macroeconomic and Geostrategic Analysis of the Unspoken Truth" has been published by the 'Sierra Times', 'Indymedia.org', and 'ratical.org'.
    This debate is not about whether America would suffer from losing the US dollar monopoly on oil trading -- that is a given -- rather it is about exactly how

  9. Re:Hometown on Stupid Censorship, Stupid Security · · Score: 1

    I spent 8 years on a combat targeting team in the military from 1962 till 1970 so I may be an evil bastard... but I am patriotic.

  10. Re:Hometown on Stupid Censorship, Stupid Security · · Score: 1

    That was the crux of it too. Apparently because it was a 911 call the sheriff claimed that a search warrant was not required.

    That anytime a 911 call is received that the officer has the right to check out the whole house. She asked him for his ID which he showed but she was too shook to write it down. Later she called the sheriff's office and procured the needed information

    The logic seems OK in a way that someone else could have placed the call and that person is now being held against their will.

  11. Re:Hometown on Stupid Censorship, Stupid Security · · Score: 1

    How is this a troll? It is a direct example of a technique for censorship... which was the subject and the topic.

    It occurred to a friend of mine and this information is being shared with those readers who might be interested.

  12. Hometown on Stupid Censorship, Stupid Security · · Score: 0, Troll

    A friend of mine who is a renowned professor and who originated from India prior to becoming a US citizen about 30 years ago... was interviewed last week by the local newspaper.

    The questions were asked about the war in Iraq and its meaning etc. Several other individuals who have immigrated answered that they were pro Bush.

    Yet my friend Jayana replied "You have to know about other countries for our survival," she said. "Only when we know what they are going through will we be able to address them in a humanitarian and peaceful way."

    America's strengths, its imagination, intelligence and compassion, contends Jayana, are simply left wasted when its leaders succumb to conflict rather than diplomacy.

    A few days later a sheriff showed up at Jayana door. Jayana had just arrived home from shopping a few minutes before the sheriff arrived.

    The sheriff said that he was responding to a 911 telephone call that was placed from her house and that he had to search the house, even though Jayana stated she was the only one who lived there and that she was not at home when the supposed 911 call was sent.

    The sheriff kept stating "what a nice house Jayana had" in a way that was intimidating and veiling some sort of threat or other implications.

    My comment is "What are the chances of a errant 911 telephone call being placed from from a house in which no one was at home especially after a comment was published by the home owner in the local papers."

    My personal belief is that the 911 call was a coverup to check Jayana out. Or perhaps a local resident who opened her demarc box on her house and sent the call to create an incident.

    How can one validate a legitimate 911 call since the 911 people report to the sheriff's department as opposed to the sheriff just simply making it up about the 911 call?

    Is 911 information public information or restricted to those that have a need to know?

  13. IBM P260 on Shopping for a New Monitor? · · Score: 1

    I opted for a very stable monitor as I spend 10 hours a day (typical) staring at the screen.

    The IBM P260 monitor supports resolutions of up to 1920X1440 at 75Hz and has a crisp 0.24 dot pitch. At 70.6lb, the P260 is not the lightest monitor. A standard D-sub connector is provided, as is a digital DVI connector

    Like many high-quality displays, the IBM P260 monitor is based on a CRT that uses FD Trinitron technology.

    The IBM P260 monitor has a relatively small array of controls below the front bezel of the display. Here you'll find a reset button, an autosizing and centering button, an input switch (it supports two video import channels), two brightness buttons (up and down), a menu button, two contrast buttons (left and right), and a power switch and indicator. These most-used controls operate in conjunction with a very crisp and well-designed on-screen menu.

  14. Re:probably require s on LA Cops get Wi-Fi Drive By Access · · Score: 1

    Besides, the high bandwidth only works "as they pass by police stations". If they're more than, what - a mile away?, that can't get any of these things anyway!

    Each coffeshop and donut shop will be equipped as well as the police stations.

    Each cop can sit at the counter eating, drinking and surfing all of his webcams located in his territory. Maybe even automatically comparing 'face recognition' with the 'wanted for questioning' file.

  15. cleaning disk drive heads on Your Most Damage-Resistant Hardware? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    I was working on a CDC disk drive that moved the heads by hydraulics (1970). Part of the preventive maintenance was to clean each head and platter with a swab stetched over a piece of bakelite.

    The routine was to unload the heads and then wet the swab with alcohol and then clean the platter. Making the platter turn was done by a maintenance switch on the back of the drive.

    I carelessly forgot to unload the heads one time and saw that the platter was spinning (thinking that I must of had hit the maintence switch already) so began cleaning it... then I realized that the heads were leaving paths in the alcohol on the platters. I quickly unloaded the heads, cleaned them, cleaned the platters correctly this time, prayed real hard because there was critical data on the platters and then restarted the drive. Fortunately no harm was done and the drive continued to work.

  16. Re:Hacksawed Video Card on Your Most Damage-Resistant Hardware? · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Back in the late 50's and early 60's Japan would sell transistor radios advertised as 8 transistor and only 3 or 4 were actually working the others were just soldered in with all of the pins connected to make the board look busier..

    That worked so well at they then advertised 16 transistors and only a few were again in use. Eventually our import people got a handle on it and shut down that practice.

    In those days a direct relationship was made between quality/fidelity and the number of transistors.

  17. Re:Variable Frequency on Venezuela Falling Behind · · Score: 4, Interesting

    Truth is sometimes stranger than fiction. The company in the town was Basler Electric Company.

    I do need to clarify... It was over 20 years ago... wow, time does fly.

    Basler makes (or did then) huge motors that a small power generator simply could not get turning from a dead stop. Remember that when a motor is not turn that maximum current is applied until the counter EMF offsets it.

    Most of the people in Highland was affiliated in some way with this hugh employer and so they were all aware of what was occurring and knew when the tests would be, etc.

    A lot of fine people live in that town.

  18. Variable Frequency on Venezuela Falling Behind · · Score: 5, Interesting

    The town of Highland Illinois had a company that made motors that shipped all over the world. At night the local power company would slow down the frequency from 60HZ to 50 HZ for testing of the motors and then catch up all the clocks in town by running at 62HZ for 5 times as long as the elapsed test sequence. This whole process had to be completed before people had to get up for work in the morning.

    This was about 20 yesrs ago so things have probably changed by now.

  19. Re:Did they catch the Anhtrax killer ? on Conspiracies And Probability · · Score: 1

    Why would Aschroft vigorously go after people who support him and want to harm people he views as enemies?

    Careful friend - that is dangerous thinking. some believe him to be the anti-christ

  20. Re:text-thought coincidence on Conspiracies And Probability · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Rather than being a coincidence, this is where the word "synchronistic" fits better.

    These situations are arranged by your Higher Self to either show you that more exists than statistics or to bring you together with someone that you need to meet.

    Here is a true story. I woke up one morning with the thoughts about an old friend of mine that I had not seen in 2 or 3 years. i left for the office and realized that I had forgotton a diskette that i needed.

    I thought that i would get it at lunch time and drove home to get it and on impulse decided to eat at a Wendy's that was a couple of miles down the road. I thought of my old friend a couple of times while driving there.

    I went in almost expecting to see him in line in front of me but after I got my food there he was sitting alone at a table.

    He said it was the first time he had eaten there in a couple of years.

    His wife had told him the night before that she wanted a divorce and he was suffering very deeply.

    I am sure that some one could calculate the odds of he and I eating at a place neither of us had been for several years, but what of the thoughts of him before hand and the fact that he needed my words of comfort at that exact moment?

  21. Re:On my way home today.... on Conspiracies And Probability · · Score: 1

    A friend of mine who lived in Missouri played the super lotto and the Missouri lotto each week. One time he had the winning numbers for the Missouri lotto on his super lotto ticket and matched all but 1 digit on his Missouri lotto ticket from the selected digits of the super lotto from the same week.

    Now those are long odds...

    And he won nothing...

  22. Two lay assessors on Jon Johansen DVD Trial Date Set · · Score: 1

    The case will be tried by one judge and a panel of two lay assessors

    The two assessors have been picked already. The first is a representative from Sony and the second a representative from RIAA.

    The two assessors are responsible for the final selection of the technology savvy judge.

    This brings a whole new meaning to the words - lay assessors.

  23. Re:Poor sun on Wireless Internet In An Off-Grid House · · Score: 1

    A Big Black Delta craft flew over and powered down their webserver

  24. Re:Slashdotted on Wireless Internet In An Off-Grid House · · Score: 1

    Apparently their web server runs on solar power

    It is night time there so their server is sleeping until the crack of dawn when once again it self-boots and begins to serve the pages.

    This is a feature!!

  25. Re:wizaaard... on The Continuing Death of Pinball · · Score: 1

    I did too and still do. Once back in 1962, back when you got 5 balls for a nickel, I was playing a pinball machine called "tictactoe" and turned on every special on the first ball and still had the 1st ball in play.

    I was going to rack up 99 free games for sure!

    I was putting a lot of 'english' on the machine with my body and accidently hit the reset button with my car keys which were bunched up in my pocket.

    So I ended up winning nothing as the pinball machine rebooted

    Wow, that was 40 years ago!! Where does the time fly? I still remember it like it was yesterday though. It would be fun to locate that machine today if any are still in existence.

    I checked google for information on this particular pinball machine and the wrong picture of the playing surface was shown. Instead of the version from 1959, all the pictures show a 1970 playing surface which worked totally different.