[This is a gallery of different images of human social networks.]

look at the highschool friendship image, see the few nodes (kids) with no connections...man, how much is that the suck...

--Abaddon

Gallery of network images

] The Federal Communications Commission is trying to clear
] the road for new Internet technologies to prosper today
] and in the future. Unfortunately, they are trying to
] accomplish this under rules defined in the
] Telecommunications Act of 1996, a law that was drafted
] before the rise of Internet services not carried via
] traditional copper telephone lines.

a short, but interesting commentary on pending VOIP FCC comment period, that will deside how this all ends...

--Abaddon

Ars Technica: VoIP poses a regulatory challenge to the FCC

I want to move the phone line in my apartment to the Black/Yellow pair, leaving all my phones on the Red/Green pair, and then put this in the middle. Then I want to setup a database where all my friends [(who do the same thing) can publish their phone numbers along with their IP addresses. When I pick up my phone the dial tone will come from my computer. I dial a number, and it does a lookup on the database, and if the number is in the database it routes my call over the internet, otherwise it uses pots... All the voip, no monthly fee. Hellz Yeah!]

I'm down...

--Abaddon

Asterisk - The Open Source Linux PBX

] The 970FX purportedly dissipates only ~25W at 2GHz,
] leaving plenty of room for speed ramping, and the real
] possibility for G5 PowerBooks. If silicon-on-insulator
] (SOI) technology proves effective at limiting current
] leakage at 90nm, IBM should not see the aggressive
] upswing in power consumption that Intel has.

I want I want I want...

--Abaddon

Ars Technica: G5 Power PC 970FX to hit 2.5GHz

Well more windows source has been leaked. Let me tell you whats going on. Microsoft leaked the code, right now they have some programmer contributing patches to the linux Kernel, and 6 months from now they are going to sue redhat and the rest of the linux community because some of their code ended up in the kernel. Really, I have seen the memo that has been circulating around Redmond.

[ Interesting theory. Hopefully the Linux folk are being *extra*, *EXTRA* careful about who's contributing patches. Because getting screwd by MS would be double-plus-ungood, a lot. -k]

Forbes.com: Net file-swappers snap up Windows source code

] Shit Bitch Bears are the most authentic and effective way
] to express deep feelings of lust, love and like to that
] special someone.

Awww...isn't Mike great.....this is what Mike is getting me for Valentines day.:)

ShitBitchBear::Home

] Politics is dirty business, and rarely so much as in the
] area of patronage: appointments to sought-after federal
] jobs in general, and to the federal bench in particular.
] So it should be little surprise that, with so much at
] stake, one political party would want to use the
] insecurity inherent in computerized databases to its
] political advantage.
]
]
] What is surprising, however, is that, caught with their
] hand in the cookie jar, Senate Republicans employed the
] tactic of blaming the victim: they said, in essence, It's
] your fault that we got and used your information. If
] successful, this tactic does not bode well for the
] government's ability to prosecute computer crimes, and to
] protect critical infrastructures.

SecurityFocus HOME Columnists: The first fallout from Cybergate

] But it was in the second part of the interview that
] things, to my mind, unraveled. Bush offered no compelling
] rationale for reelecting him. He offered excuses on the
] economy; and, on the critical matter of the country's
] fiscal health, he seemed scarily out of touch.
] ...
] if this is the level of coherence, grasp of reality,
] and honesty that is really at work in his understanding
] of domestic fiscal policy, then we are in even worse
] trouble than we thought.

[ A strikingly similar analysis of Bush's Meet the Press interview to my own. The key difference is that this is Andrew Sullivan, a traditional Bush apologist, if not supporter. The republican base is foundering on the issue of the economy. This is our opening, unless by some magical chance, the US creates 10 million jobs and the debt mysteriously vanishes in the next 6 months. -k]

*sarcasm* no way dude, its magic, stop thinking so hard and trust him...no seriously... */sarcasm*

--Abaddon

The New Republic Online: Attention Deficit

] RWT is running an series of articles (Part I and Part II)
] by an anonymous author who has done an impressive job of
] reverse engineering many of the technical details of
] Transmeta's Code Morphing Software and the VLIW hardware
] at the core of Crusoe.

Ive been looking for something like this for a long time now...

--Abaddon

Ars Technica: Hacking Crusoe

] Once upon a time, there was a SPC Schwarz stationed with
] the Army in the Balkans. SPC Schwarz was either very
] clever or very bored; but probably both, since he managed
] to attempt or be warned about 213 things he wasn't
] allowed to do. He collected those things into a
] hillarious list and posted them to the web. The site
] hadn't been updated in a couple of years and has since
] gone away; but the list is classic, so I saved it.

My Personal Favorites:

-I am not authorized to sell mineral rights.
-Not allowed to add 'In accordance with the prophesy' to the end of answers I give to a question an officer asks me.
-Despite the confusing similarity in the names, the "Safety Dance" and the "Safety Briefing" are never to be combined.

very funny

213 things you can't do in the Army