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"...the only people for me are the mad ones, the ones who are mad to live, mad to be saved, desirous of everything at the same time, the ones who never yawn or say a commonplace thing, but burn, burn, burn like the fabulous yellow roman candles exploding like spiders across the stars..." - Jack Kerouac

A Pumpakin Carve-nival
Topic: Miscellaneous 5:08 pm EST, Oct 29, 2002

A little halloween fun:)

A Pumpakin Carve-nival


Realistic Internet Simulator - B3ta.com
Topic: Miscellaneous 4:42 pm EST, Oct 28, 2002

Hijexx: Use the farce... See if you can beat my score, I hit 66 :O)

Rattle: I made it to 229.

Nano: hrm....59 was my highest score. Rattle, are you on speed? Or do you just visit alot of pr0n sites involving pop up windows?;)

Realistic Internet Simulator - B3ta.com


Google Answers
Topic: Miscellaneous 1:00 am EST, Oct 28, 2002

"More than 500 carefully screened Researchers are ready to answer your question for as little as $2.50 -- usually within 24 hours. Your satisfaction is completely guaranteed.
Find out what others are saying. "

Get Google to do your homework for you...for a price

Google Answers


Bringing Up Baby (1938)
Topic: Arts 9:42 pm EST, Oct 27, 2002

Better yet, watch Bringing Up Baby with Katherine Hepburn and Cary Grant. 116 of Top 250 @ imdb.

Just watched this again last night. You'll love it.

[yay....anything with Cary Grant and a Hepburn in it is bound to r0ck:) - Nano]

Bringing Up Baby (1938)


Charade (1963)
Topic: Arts 11:31 am EST, Oct 27, 2002

Romance and suspense in Paris, as a woman is pursued by several men who want a fortune her murdered husband had stolen. Who can she trust?

Watch the original and classic "Charade" instead of seeing the new remake "The Truth About Charlie". It's Technicolor in Paris ... plus, Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant beat Mark Wahlberg and Thandie Newton any day ...

[mmm....Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. I am definitly going to have to check that out. - Nano]

Charade (1963)


Wired News: Implantable Chip, On Sale Now
Topic: Miscellaneous 1:37 am EDT, Oct 26, 2002

"The maker of an implantable human ID chip has launched a national campaign to promote the device, offering $50 discounts to the first 100,000 people who register to get embedded with the microchip. "

shady, shady, shady.

Wired News: Implantable Chip, On Sale Now


politechbot.com: More on FDA permitting use of implantable ID chips in humans
Topic: Technology 1:28 am EDT, Oct 26, 2002

"We are not now developing, nor do we have any plans to develop, anything other than an external, wearable device."

Statement last winter by the company that just received FDA approval to begin implanting tracking chips in people. This whole thing will sound like the worst sort of conspiracy theory, but just THINK about these things. They are real. They are here.

Anything that can be implanted can be carried without bother. What is the advantage of implanting? What are the applications where this is required functionality?

politechbot.com: More on FDA permitting use of implantable ID chips in humans


NewsForge: The Online Newspaper of Record for Linux and Open Source
Topic: Politics and Law 2:37 pm EDT, Oct 24, 2002

Who should your computer take its orders from? Most people think their computers should obey them, not obey someone else. With a plan they call "trusted computing," large media corporations (including the movie companies and record companies), together with computer companies such as Microsoft and Intel, are planning to make your computer obey them instead of you. Proprietary programs have included malicious features before, but this plan would make it universal.

...

Programs that use treacherous computing will continually download new authorization rules through the Internet, and impose those rules automatically on your work. If Microsoft, or the U.S. government, does not like what you said in a document you wrote, they could post new instructions telling all computers to refuse to let anyone read that document. Each computer would obey when it downloads the new instructions. Your writing would be subject to 1984-style retroactive erasure. You might be unable to read it yourself.

...
From Hijexx:

I'm trying to think of the small things we can do to get the word out about TCPA. Taking an ad out in the Nashville scene and writing to all of the TCPA board members are the first two things that come to mind.

If you didn't already know, this so called "trusted computing" initiative is a very bad thing. If we start to allow it into our computers, we start to lose the war.

[BEGIN RANT]

The digital world has been here for a while now. How do you like it so far? I started exploring it in 1981 with a Texas Instruments TI-99/4a. Things have changed a lot over the last two decades since.

I read the book '1984' in 8th grade as required reading. This was the same time that the Gulf War was being played 24/7 on the Channel One provided televisions in my high school. Two minute hate, anyone?

Being a tech head, the most striking feature of '1984' was the memory hole. History could be created, edited, revised, and destroyed at will by the state. The parallels between what Orwell envisioned and my BBS were too striking for me to ignore. The ephemeral nature of electromagnetic charges as opposed to the physical construct of ink and paper. I took solace in the fact that I could back things up and make perfect copies instantly.

If the TCPA folks get their way, all that goes out the door. Your computer becomes a closed system meant for one purpose: Consumption. Want to develop an application? Pay your fare.

TCPA stands for Trusted Computing Platform Alliance. The Steering Committee consists of Compaq, HP, IBM, Intel, and Microsoft. There are over 170 member companies.

Their website is www.trustedcomputing.org. I suggest learning as much as you can about their initiative. The PC is only their first stop, they are after all consumer electronics. Learn the enemy, think like the enemy, befriend the enemy, become the enemy. This is the only way to subvert the enemy.

Oh, and by the way, AMD and nVidia are playing ball too. Sleep tight.

[ This is just wrong. Its interesting that Hijexx brought up "1984". In "Our Posthuman Future", Francis Fukuyama makes parallels between the books "1984" and "Brave New World" to aid him in making points about where the biotech revolution is headed. He brings up an interesting point made by Peter Huber about how computers are the realization of the telescreen, except instead of big brother watching us, we use computers to monitor big brother. Computers and the internet are about the "democratization of access to information". With this treacherous computing stuff, information won't flow freely every again, because it looks as though there will be restrictions everywhere. Sometimes, books like "1984" don't seem so fictional. - Nano]

NewsForge: The Online Newspaper of Record for Linux and Open Source


www.oreilly.com -- Why Biologists Want to Program Computers
Topic: Miscellaneous 6:10 pm EDT, Oct 23, 2002

"This article will examine why a biologist would want to learn to program. There are two main reasons: scientific, and economic. I hope that the discussion will also be of some use to programmers thinking of entering the bioinformatics field. But first, I'll take a short tour of some history, define some terms, and make some general comments about how programming fits into biology research."

Interesting article written by the guy who wrote my "Beginning Perl for Bioinformatics" O'Reilly book.

www.oreilly.com -- Why Biologists Want to Program Computers


O'Reilly Network: Bioinformatics Meets Mac OS X [Dec. 14, 2001]
Topic: Computers 5:55 pm EDT, Oct 23, 2002

"Many of the important bioinformatics applications that previously existed only for Unix platforms are now being brought over to the Macintosh, thanks to Mac OS X and its Unix underpinnings."

One of many reasons why I want a Mac OSX system. I know this article is old...but as it is new and relevant to me, I thought I would meme it:)

O'Reilly Network: Bioinformatics Meets Mac OS X [Dec. 14, 2001]


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