Stupid Celebritie "Quotes"

The Daily Telegraph provides examples of celebrities' fad gaffes and what the experts say.

Scientists warn on celebrities promoting fads "I am challenging these evil genes by natural means. I am convinced that by eating biological foods it is possible to avoid tumours." Gwyneth Paltrow, actress "Diet cannot prevent cancer. The risks of some of them can be reduced with certain diets, but some cancers, alas, show no link to dietary factors." Ursula Arens, dietician "If you suffer from joint pain it is a good idea to cut out or reduce the amount of tomatoes, aubergines, peppers, white potatoes and paprika that you eat." Gillian McKeith, author "Some rheumatoid patients may improve by omitting certain foods from their diets, but this must be determined on an individual basis and a blanket prohibition is totally unjustified." Margaret Rayman, professor of nutritional medicine "Lots of skin products use the same petrochemicals as the antifreeze in your car." Stella McCartney, fashion designer "Propylene glycol is a very versatile chemical which is used primarily as a base in moisturisers, a solvent in food colouring, a carrier solvent in fragrances and in many anti-bacterial lotions. So it might sound scary, but it isn't." Dr Dominic Williams, pharmacologist "There is no conclusive evidence showing that the continued use of these devices is linked to any measurable and general improvements in cognition. Practice at any task should lead to some form of improvement for that specific task." Dr Jason Braithwaite, cognitive neuroscientist While presenting How toxic are you? on Channel 4, she talked of "lovely make-up and moisturisers which don't have any chemicals in them". Sarah Beeny, television presenter "Chemicals are everywhere and everything. To be chemical free you have to experience a total vacuum." Ian Mabbett, chemist

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FCC to Probe Comcast Data Discrimination

I was waiting for this to happen and i am GLAD that it is going to!

By PETER SVENSSON – 1 day ago

LAS VEGAS (AP) — The Federal Communications Commission will investigate complaints that Comcast Corp. actively interferes with Internet traffic as its subscribers try to share files online, FCC Chairman Kevin Martin said Tuesday.

A coalition of consumer groups and legal scholars asked the agency in November to stop Comcast from discriminating against certain types of data. Two groups also asked the FCC to fine the nation's No. 2 Internet provider $195,000 for every affected subscriber.

"Sure, we're going to investigate and make sure that no consumer is going to be blocked," Martin told an audience at the International Consumer Electronics Show.

In an investigation last year, The Associated Press found that Comcast in some cases hindered file sharing by subscribers who used BitTorrent, a popular file-sharing program. The findings, first reported Oct. 19, confirmed claims by users who also noticed interference with other file-sharing applications.

Comcast denies that it blocks file sharing, but acknowledged after the AP story that it was "delaying" some of the traffic between computers that share files. The company said the intervention was necessary to improve the surfing experience for the majority of its subscribers.

Peer-to-peer file sharing is a common way to illegally exchange copyright files, but companies are also rushing to utilize it for legal distribution of video and game content. If ISPs hinder or control that traffic, it makes them important gatekeepers of Internet content.

The FCC's response will be an important test of its willingness to enforce "Net Neutrality," the principle that Internet traffic be treated equally by carriers. The agency has a broadly stated policy supporting the concept, but its position hasn't been tested in a real-world case.

The FCC's policy statement makes an exception for "reasonable traffic management." Comcast has said its practices fall under that exception.

"The question is going to arise: Are they reasonable network practices?" Martin said Tuesday. "When they have reasonable network practices, they should disclose those and make those public."

Comcast subscribers who asked the company about interference on their connections before the AP story ran were met with flat denials.

A Comcast spokesman did not have an immediate comment.

Martin also said the commission was looking at complaints that wireless carriers denied text-messaging "short codes" to some applicants. The five-digit numbers are a popular way to sign up for updates on everything from sports to politics to entertainment news.

Verizon Wireless in late September denied a request by Naral Pro-Choice America, an abortion rights group, to use its mobile network for a sign-up text messaging program.

The company reversed course just a day later, calling it a mistake and an "isolated incident."

Verizon Wireless has also denied a short code to a Swedish company, Rebtel Networks AB, that operates a service similar to a virtual calling card, allowing users to avoid paying the carrier's international rates on their cell-phone calls. Verizon Wireless has stuck to that denial, saying it does want to provide an advertising venue to a competitor.

"I tell the staff that they should act on all of those complaints and investigate all of them," Martin said.

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Thought for today...

when the pope kises the feet of the laity he looks like an old toe-queen to some people 'The Illuminatus Trilogy' pg 560 Posted via my LGVX8600 phone.

Southeast morning...

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The Sisters Of Mercy - Custom DVD

Several years ago I did a “custom” DVD by the Sisters Of Mercy.  It took me a long time to get it the way I wanted to and I also did a custom cover using some of their symbols and old album cover. It is encoded in AC3 5.1   with all of their music videos and their concert at Royal Albert Hall back from 1985.  I was think about placing it on the web in an .ISO format and using Bit Torrent to distribute the video. I have shown it to people that really liked it. I am just wondering how some of you feel about this?   Let me know…

 

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The Illuminatus! Trilogy Stuff...

"Current Structure of the Bavarian
Illuminati Conspiracy and the Law of Fives"

The Law of Fives

The Law of Fives is summarized in the Principia Discordia:

The Law of Fives states simply that: all phenomena are directly or indirectly related to the number five, and this relationship can always be demonstrated given enough ingenuity on the part of the demonstrator.
The Law of Fives is never wrong. – Malaclypse the Younger, Principia Discordia, Page 00016

The Law of Fives as quoted uses the word "Five" five times.

Like most of Discordianism, the Law of Fives appears on the surface to be either some sort of weird joke, or bizarre supernaturalism; but under this, it may help clarify the Discordian view of how the human mind works; Lord Omar is quoted later on the same page as having written, "I find the Law of Fives to be more and more manifest the harder I look."

Appendix Beth of Robert Shea's and Robert Anton Wilson's The Illuminatus! Trilogy considers some of the numerology of Discordianism, and the question of what would happen to the Law of Fives if everyone had six fingers on each hand. The authors suggest that the real Law of Fives may be that everything can be related to the number five if you try hard enough. Sometimes the steps required may be highly convoluted.

Another way of looking at the Law of Fives is as a symbol for the observation of reality changing that which is being observed in the observer's mind. Just as how when one looks for fives in reality, one finds them, so will one find conspiracies, ways to determine when the apocalypse will come, and so on and so forth when one decides to look for them. It cannot be wrong, because it proves itself reflexively when looked at through this lens.

The Bavarian Illuminati

History

Adam Weishaupt

This movement was founded on May 1, 1776, in Ingolstadt (Upper Bavaria), by Jesuit-taught Adam Weishaupt (d. 1830),^[2] who was the first lay professor of canon law at the University of Ingolstadt.^[3] The movement was made up of freethinkers, as an offshoot of the Enlightenment^[4], which some believe was a conspiracy to infiltrate and overthrow the governments of many European states^[5]. The group's adherents were given the name Illuminati, although they called themselves "Perfectibilists". The group has also been called the Illuminati Order, and the Bavarian Illuminati, and the movement itself has been referred to as Illuminism. In 1777, Karl Theodor, Elector Palatine, succeeded as ruler of Bavaria. He was a proponent of Enlightened Despotism and in 1784, his government banned all secret societies, including the Illuminati.

While it was not legally allowed to operate, many influential intellectuals and progressive politicians counted themselves as members, including Ferdinand of Brunswick and the diplomat Xavier von Zwack.^[6] The Illuminati's members pledged obedience to their superiors, and were divided into three main classes: the first, known as the Nursery, encompassed the ascending degrees or offices of Preparation, Novice, Minerval and Illuminatus Minor. The second, known as the Masonry, consists of the ascending degrees of Illuminatus Major and Illuminatus dirigens. It was also sometimes called Scotch Knight. The third, designated the Mysteries, was subdivided into the degrees of the Lesser Mysteries (Presbyter and Regent) and those of the Greater Mysteries (Magus and Rex).

The order had its branches in most countries of the European continent; it reportedly had around 2,000 members over the span of 10 years.^[7] The scheme had its attraction for literary men, such as Johann Wolfgang von Goethe and Johann Gottfried Herder, and even for the reigning dukes of Gotha and Weimar. Internal rupture and panic over succession preceded its downfall, which was effected by The Secular Edict made by the Bavarian government in 1785.^{[citation needed]}

Illuminati after 1790

Conspiracy theorists such as Ryan Burke and Morgan Gricar, have argued that the Bavarian Illuminati survived, possibly to this day, though very little reliable evidence can be found to support that Weishaupt's group survived into the 19th century. However, several groups have used the name Illuminati since to found their own rites, claiming to be the Illuminati, including the Ordo Templi Orientis (OTO) founded by Theodor Reuss and Aleister Crowley (England),^[8] Grand Lodge Rockefeller founded by David Goldman (USA), Orden Illuminati^[9] founded by Gabriel López de Rojas (Spain), The Illuminati Order^[10] and others.

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Thought for today...

Tim Leary - 'People have to go out of their minds before they can come to their senses. 'The Illuminatus Trilogy' pg 113 Posted via my LGVX8600 phone.

Clear morning drive...

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Evening Sky 4.46pm EST

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The Timelords / The KLF - Doctorin' The TARDIS feat Glitter

The Justified Ancients of Mu Mu...Doctor Who HEY!! The Tradis...

The KLF - 3AM Eternal(Live At The SSL)

I used to want a phone like the one in the video.

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Sample city, through Trancentral
Basic face kick, elemental
Swings, brings new technology
With K the L the F an' the ology
The force comin' down with mayhem
Lookin at my watch, time 3 A.M.
Got to see that everywhere I turn will
Point to the fact that time is Eternal

KLF - Last Train To Trancentral (Stadium House)

This is a classic from 1992!! Back To The Heavyweight...JAMM!

KLF - America: What Time is Love

Great Track...

Bike Ride Today...

We went to Pocahontas today and rode the Red, Blue and Double Red trail. We parked at the Quala Road Lot and we ended up riding 8.76 miles total. It was very cold this morning about 30 degrees when we started at 9am but it warmed up nicely and was a very good ride. We all took spills today. No one was hurt. It is just part of the riding experience, no pain, no gain.


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Neat Clouds!

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Another morning shot...

It is cold @29 deg. Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
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Cold good morning

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Illuminatus! Trilogy...

"Be hard. . . . Whatever is done for love is beyond good and evil. . . . Above the ape is man, and above man, the Superman. . . . Forget not thy whip. ..." - Neitzsche



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Thought for today...

Ishmael Reed-The history of the world is the history of the warfare between secret societies. 'The Illuminatus Trilogy' Posted via my LGVX8600 phone.

The Dandy Warhols - Every Day Should Be A Holiday

The Dandy Warhols Come Down(1997)
This is a Cool Video!!!

Dandy Warhols - Good Morning

The Dandy Warhols Come Down (1997)
In my good, good morning,
I'm up before what the sun can bring
Early morning, and
Everyone like a shiny thing
All my Angels
Appear before my window saying
"Good, morning,"
My good, good morning.

Dandy Warhols - Not If You Were The Last Junkie On Earth

I never thought you'd be a junkie
because heroin is so passe...
The Dandy Warhols Come Down(1997)

The Dandy Warhols - The Last High

This is the second track that i liked by them. It is off of Welcome To The Monkey House(2003) Album

The Dandy Warhols- We Used to Be Friends (Music Video)

This was my first song that i heard from them. Well it was a remix of thi tune by Blacksmoke.

Book Stuff...

Well folks, today i finished part 3 of Bush At War called State of Denial by Bob Woodward. They gave some very interesting looks at the events leading up to the war(s) and some of the inter-department fighting that took place. The books really do explain a lot of the inter workings of the White House and Government. He had and used many sources to write these books.

I am now goign to start The Illuminatus! Trilogy by Robert Anton Wison. This should be an interesting read. The KLF used this book as a basis for much of the mystique of their works...



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Thought for today...

Unknown - No such thing as bad weather just bad choice of cloths. Posted via my LGVX8600 phone.

The Sisters of Mercy - First And Last and Always...

First And Last and Always(1985)
The video is from "Wake - Live at Royal Albert Hall"
First and last and always: My calling, my time
First and last and always: Mine...

The Sisters of Mercy -- More

It is off Vision Thing(1990) Another classiv track from The Sisters Of Mercy. I wonder how namy of the "EMO" bands owe a big debt to TSOM? They are and always will be the Fathers Of Goth Rock.

Sisters of Mercy - Dominion/Mother Russia

The song is from Floodland (1987)and the album cut is 7.02 long!! How and friend and i used to jamm this in the dorms at SFA in Nacogdoches Texas.

Sisters Of Mercy - This Corrosion

More Classic SISTERS OF MERCY circa 1987. This is still played at Numbers Club in Houston Texas

The Sisters of Mercy -- Lucretia, My Reflection

I Hear the roar of a big machine...

Skinny Puppy - Smothered Hope

Classic 1980s Industrial Dance Music!! I saw them in 1990 at Institute in Dallas TX and then in 1992 in Houston TX.

Lead into Gold - Faster Than Light

This video is from the Wax Trax Black Box VHS tape. stuart zechman-guitar, paul barker-vocals-bass, al jourgenson-guitar-bass,keyboards, martin atkins-drums, trent reznor-guitar. this is also the era when martin atkins drummed for NIN. and just after this everyone left ministry to form pigface with martin atkins, chris connolly and ogre from skinny puppy.

Bomb The Bass - Beat Dis

The Thunderbirds are Go Go Go...

The Shamen - Progen 91 (I.R.P. In The Land Of Oz)

I used to jamm in the Clubs in Southeast Texas, Houston, and Louisiana at Starz, and Club FX to this tune back in the day...

Self Inflicted...

I emailed an old friend around his birthday at the ending of November. This is the person that used to be my friend and that i had a very bad ending of a 18 year friendship with. A lot of stuff went down between us 2 years ago. I felt bad for my part in it so i emailed him and asked him to call me. He did about 2 weeks after the email.

He told me that he wondered if i was just messing with him or did i really mean that i wanted to talk to him as only 3 people called him for his birthday, hip parents, me and an old girlfriend. He berated me for about 30 minutes as was his nature about the occurrence and then tried to talk to me in his usual fashion. I was not at a place that i could talk as we were out shopping. Let me say he used to call at odd hours of the night all the time when we were friends. He was always an odd person but i overlooked that. He called me several other times that evening and i said finally that i could not talk as it was very obsessive to call that many times and could he call the next day.

When i got home, i did another email asking him not to call at odd hours of the day or night which i thought was not a strange request. He replied and said that we would have no more contact and it was left at that...

I started to think about this event and what had been said and exchanged between us during that several calls and i realized that i was not me but that it was him. It struck em very odd that only 3 people called him for his birthday and that one was me an ex friend.

Had no professional colleagues called, had no other friends called? He has or had other friends because i know them as well. Has he so totally fallen off the deep end that he has pushed everyone away from him? I guess that only time will tell but as far as i am concerned am finished with this event.



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A Few [Slashdot] Stories for you on this new year...

Here are a few for you to look at and read. Enjoy!

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| Data Theft Soars to Unprecedented Levels                           |

|   from the never-been-easier-to-be-someone-else dept.              |

|   posted by Zonk on Sunday December 30, @20:17 (Privacy)           |

|   http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/0034252           |

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A Wired article reports on data loss in 2007, and the numbers aren't good. [0]Credit card and social security theft was at an all-time high, with even more losses expected in 2008. Information thieves, it seems, are just one step ahead of IT security. "While companies, government agencies, schools and other institutions are spending more to protect ever-increasing volumes of data with more sophisticated firewalls and encryption, the investment often is too little too late. 'More of them are experiencing data breaches, and they're responding to them in a reactive way, rather than proactively looking at the company's security and seeing where the holes might be,' said Linda Foley, who founded the San Diego-based Identity Theft Resource Center after becoming an identity theft victim herself."

 

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| How To Lose Your Job, Thanks To The Internet                       |

|   from the it's-easy-if-you-know-how dept.                         |

|   posted by Zonk on Sunday December 30, @22:25 (The Internet)      |

|   http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/0111255          |

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The New York Times has up an article discussing the trend of employers tracking the 'free time' activities of their employees via their web presence. "When they do go off the clock and off the corporate network, how they spend their private time should be of no concern to their employer, even if the Internet, by its nature, makes some off-the-job activities more visible to more people than was previously possible. In the absence of strong protections for employees, poorly chosen words or even a single photograph posted online in one's off-hours can have career-altering consequences." The piece [0]likens this activity to the 'Sociological Department' that the Ford Company ran to monitor the home lives of their workers. Overstatement, or the corp as Big Brother?

 

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    0. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/30/business/30digi.html?ex=1356670800&en=55ef6410d3cac28e&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt&emc=rss

 

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| Most Consumers Sitting Out The High-Def War                        |

|   from the might-be-early-to-choose-sides dept.                    |

|   posted by Zonk on Monday December 31, @08:11 (Media)             |

|   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/0620249              |

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The New York Times notes that, despite the increasing variety of programs on the Blu-ray and HD-DVD formats, most US consumers are [0]staying out of the DVD format war. This is a wise decision, the article states, because the two formats are essentially at a stalemate. "The two camps are victims of their own earlier success with DVD. The standard DVDs offered a quantum leap in quality from the picture and sound of VHS videotape, and for many that was more than adequate. In addition, DVD players that can convert images to near high-definition quality can be found for under $100, hundreds less than a true high-definition DVD player, further reducing the urgency to upgrade to one of the new formats."

 

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| Wii Hacked for Better Homebrew Games                               |

|   from the playing-with-your-own-toys dept.                        |

|   posted by ScuttleMonkey on Monday December 31, @14:17 (Wii (Games|

|   http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/31/1834204        |

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[0]arbourp writes to mention that hackers Michael Steil and Felix Domke have demonstrated a way to [1]hack the Wii that makes running homebrew code much easier. "The hack advances the possibility of running homebrew code with access to full system resources on the device, not just programs that Nintendo has sanctioned. Such games might be developed to run from a DVD drive, at least in theory. No such games are available as yet and Nintendo may respond by attempting to revoke compromised encryption keys. However history shows such countermeasures are likely to ultimately prove futile."

 

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    1. http://www.theregister.co.uk/2007/12/31/nintendo_wii_hack/

 

 

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funny

The Herlihy Boy Housesitting Service: Sandler and Farley WHAT A TEAM!!

Adam Sandler - Lunch Lady

Not the same as the SNL skit...

Everlast - What Its Like

It is an oldie but a goodie!!

Everlast - Ends

Stackign Mad Chips...For The Ends

Ending of The Year 2007

I just want to wish each and every one of you Happy New Year!!

 

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Some Funny IMBA Posters...

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Great Little Application...

I have used this app since way before Microsoft purchased the company. It is called Process Explorer and it was originally created by Sysinternals.

Process Explorer v11.04

By Mark Russinovich

Published: November 5, 2007

Introduction

Ever wondered which program has a particular file or directory open? Now you can find out. Process Explorer shows you information about which handles and DLLs processes have opened or loaded.

The Process Explorer display consists of two sub-windows. The top window always shows a list of the currently active processes, including the names of their owning accounts, whereas the information displayed in the bottom window depends on the mode that Process Explorer is in: if it is in handle mode you'll see the handles that the process selected in the top window has opened; if Process Explorer is in DLL mode you'll see the DLLs and memory-mapped files that the process has loaded. Process Explorer also has a powerful search capability that will quickly show you which processes have particular handles opened or DLLs loaded.

The unique capabilities of Process Explorer make it useful for tracking down DLL-version problems or handle leaks, and provide insight into the way Windows and applications work.

Process Explorer works on Windows 9x/Me, Windows NT 4.0, Windows 2000, Windows XP, Server 2003, and 64-bit versions of Windows for x64 and IA64 processors, and Windows Vista.

What's new in Version 11.04:

* New treelist control for better UI responsiveness
* Asynchronous thread symbol resolution on threads tab of process properties
* More flags on groups in security tab and SID display
* Thread IDs on threads tab
* On-line search uses default web browser and search engine
* Vista ASLR column for processes and DLLs
* Vista Process and thread I/O and memory priorities in process and thread properties
* Vista Process and thread I/O and memory columns
* PROCESS_QUERY_LIMITED_INFORMATION support on process permissions on Vista
* Run as limited user runs with low IL on Vista
* Reports information for all object types on Vista
* Show details for all processes elevation menu item on Vista
* Supports replacement of task manager on Vista
* /e to launch elevated
* /s switch to select a process at startup
* Compiled w/ASLR, DEP
* Faster startup
* Miscellaneous bug fixes and minor improveme







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Computer Work Finished...

Well folks i got the computer work finished. I installed a WD500GB SATA300 drive, did away with an 80GIG and a 160GIG drive. I installed 2GIGs of Kingston KVR DDR2700 ram and added a KVR 512MB stick. I also added an Antec Truepower Trio 650watt power supply to the old box and BOY it made a big differeance. I think that i am going to get another 80-100 gig WD drive to change out the 40GIG system drive.



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A few choice [Slashdot] Stories.

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| AOL to Shut Down Netscape Support/Development                      |

|   from the lizard-had-a-good-run dept.                             |

|   posted by Zonk on Friday December 28, @16:42 (Netscape)          |

|   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/28/2139209              |

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[0]Kelson writes "After years of trying to figure out what to do with it,

AOL is officially [1]discontinuing the Netscape browser. In the four and

a half years after they dismantled the development team and spun off the

[2]Mozilla Foundation as a lost cause, only to see [3]Firefox take off,

AOL has tried twice to reinvent Netscape. There was the chimera-like

Netscape 8, which used both Mozilla's and IE's rendering engines, and

just months ago they released Netscape 9, trying to ride the social

networking wave. AOL will release security fixes through February 1,

2008, after which the browser will officially be dead. For the

"nostalgic," they suggest using Firefox and installing a Netscape theme."

 

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    2. http://mozilla.org/

    3. http://mozilla.com/products/firefox/

 

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| TSA Limits Lithium Batteries on Airplanes                          |

|   from the best-kind-of-theatre-is-the-funny-kind dept.            |

|   posted by Zonk on Friday December 28, @15:26 (Security)          |

|   http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/28/1944208           |

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yali writes "The U.S. Transportation and Security Administration has

issued new rules [0]limiting travel with lithium batteries. As of January

1, [1]no spare lithium batteries are allowed in checked luggage.

Batteries carried in the cabin are subject to limitations on per-battery

and total lithium content, and spare batteries must have the terminals

covered. If you're returning home from the holidays with new toys, be

sure to check out the new restrictions before you pack."

 

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    1. http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5h74l-BiD30YO0rsScUm-HdpKRTuAD8TQK0CO0

 

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| Wal-Mart Closes Online Movie Download Service                      |

|   from the hard-to-fight-the-flix dept.                            |

|   posted by Zonk on Friday December 28, @13:34 (Businesses)        |

|   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/28/1638230              |

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[0]eldavojohn writes "A year after [1]opening its movie download service,

[2]Wal-Mart has abandoned the endeavor. They claim this is a result of

HP's decision to stop supporting its video download store software. The

article also notes that, unlike iTunes, Wal-Mart offered variable pricing

which attracted a lot of studios. 'The world's largest retailer instead

turned its rental service over to Netflix Inc. Wal-Mart still operates a

music download service and continues to sell CDs and DVDs at retail

stores and over the Internet for shipping by mail.' Is this evidence of

the strength of unified pricing in media downloads or just another

company being squished by the giant Netflix & Apple?"

 

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    0. mailto:my/.username@@@gmail.com

    1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/06/0836259&tid=97

    2. http://www.nytimes.com/aponline/technology/AP-Wal-Mart-Movie-Downloads.html?_r=1&oref=slogin

 

 

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| Domains May Disappear After Search                                 |

|   from the risky-business-out-here dept.                           |

|   posted by Zonk on Friday December 28, @11:36 (Security)          |

|   http://it.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/28/1458247           |

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[0]Ponca City, We Love You writes "Daily Domainer has a story [1]alleging

that there may be a leak that allows domain tasters to intercept, analyze

and register your domain ideas in minutes. 'Every time you do a whois

search with any service, you run a risk of losing your domain,' says one

industry insider. ICANN's Security and Stability Advisory Committee (SSAC

) has not been able to find hard evidence of Domain Name Front Running

but [2]they have issued an advisory (pdf) for people to come forward with

hard evidence it is happening. Here is how domain name research theft

crimes can occur and [3]some tips to avoiding being a victim."

 

Discuss this story at:

    http://it.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/28/1458247

 

Links:

    0. http://poncacityweloveyou.com/

    1. http://www.dailydomainer.com/2007173-who-is-monitoring-your-domain-searches-update.html

    2. http://img.domaintools.com/blog/domain-name-front-running.pdf

    3. http://blog.domaintools.com/2007/03/stealing-domain-name-research/

 

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| Warner Music Group Drops DRM for Amazon                            |

|   from the step-in-the-right-direction dept.                       |

|   posted by Soulskill on Thursday December 27, @19:58 (Music)      |

|   http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/27/2327239              |

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SirLurksAlot sends us to Ars Technica for an article about the Warner

Music Group's [0]decision to allow DRM-free music downloads through

Amazon. This reversal of [1]Warner's former position has been [2]underway

for some time, and it boosts the number of DRM-free songs available from

Amazon to 2.9 million. Quoting: "Warner's announcement says nothing about

offering its content through other services such as iTunes, and

represents the music industry's attempt to make life a bit more difficult

for Apple after all the years in which the company held the keys to

music's digital kingdom.

 

Discuss this story at:

    http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/27/2327239

 

Links:

    0. http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071227-3down-1-to-go-warner-music-group-drops-drm.html

    1. http://apple.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/02/09/1653255&tid=141

    2. http://yro.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/11/16/1733216&tid=141

 

 

RMStringer

********************

"To open the eternal worlds, to

open the immortal eyes Of man

Inwards, into the worlds of thought, into Eternity". ITN

 

 

Ministry - Thieves

Thieves and Liars...

Ministry - Jesus Built My Hotrod

Jesus Built My Hotrod is a 1991 single by Ministry and was the band's most popular song up to that point. The track features a driving beat and speed metal guitar work backing Butthole Surfers' Gibby Haynes gonzo vocal stylings.
The Band:
Al Jourgensen
Paul Barker
M Balch
Gibby Haynes
Bill Rieflin

PANINARO '95 PET SHOP BOYS

The remix released in 1995 was not as good as the original track from 1986.

Pet Shop Boys - Paninaro

The video depicts this very well.
I love the long version on the "Disco" album from 1986.
An Italian youth cult of the 1980s named from the sandwich bars where its members gathered. They wore expensive ‘designer’ clothes (from the US and Italy), presenting a tough militaristic image - leather jackets, belts with large buckles, dark glasses - which accorded with their right-wing views.

Pet Shop Boys - Opportunities - (Let's make lots of money)

1985!! They hit the music scene like a ton of bricks!! I so love the Trench Coat that they had....

The KLF - 3am Eternal

This is taken from The Stadium House VHS tape. I have this on VHS and also a video file. 1991 was the year it came out. I always wanted a phone like the one in the video!

The Orb - Little Fluffy Clouds...

I got to see them live in DC early this year. I also got to meet them as well at that same show at the 930pm Club.

Computer Issues...

I am still having issues but I hope to have them solved tonight. I have upgraded my RAM and I am now running about 2.5Gigs of DDR 2700 and I am working out the new SATA drive issues. I might replace my power supply with a 560watt also. I will keep everyone informed as things unfold. Thank you for your patience.  I have a neat pic to place on the Blog of the Buttermilk Trail superimposed over a Google map.

 

RMStringer

^^^^^^^^^^^^^

Let teachers and priests and philosophers brood

over questions of reality and illusion.

I know this: if life is an illusion, then I

am no less an illusion, and being thus, the

illusion is real to me. I live, I burn with life, I

love, I slay, and I am content.

(Robert E. Howard, Queen of the Black Coast, Weird Tales, May 1934)

 

Computer problems...

I have installed a new 500gig SATA drive and i am now having to copy over another drive that is going bad. I hope to have this issue solved soon and be back to posting good stuff on the blog...

Thankx,

--
RMSTringer
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I want that station wagon...

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Today December 25, 2007

Well we had a wonderful Christmas with lots of presents and good times. We miss our family and that the fact that we were not able to be with them during this holiday season.  I was able to go to Pocahontas Park today with Mark and we rode the Red and Blue trails  riding about 7 miles which was a good thing.  I have to go to work tomorrow until the end of the week. All have a wonderful rest of the night.

 

RMStringer

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The significant problems we face

cannot be solved at the same level

of thinking we were at when

we created them: Albert Einstein

 

Christmas in Mu

The idea of Mu first appeared in the works of the antiquarian Augustus Le Plongeon (1825–1908), a 19th century traveler and writer who conducted his own investigations of the Maya ruins in Yucatán. He announced that he had translated the ancient Mayan writings, which supposedly showed that the Maya of Yucatán were older than the later civilizations of Atlantis and Egypt, and additionally told the story of an even older continent of Mu, which had foundered in a similar fashion to Atlantis, with the survivors founding the Maya civilization.

Le Plongeon actually got the name "Mu" from a mistranslation of what was then called the Troano Codex in 1864, using the de Landa alphabet. Mu was taken to mean Atlantis, which is what Le Plongeon thought; he also thought that Queen Moo was in Central America 30,000 years ago and founded civilizations in Atlantis and Egypt.



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Christmas Eve Afternoon Sky...

Taken with my LGVX8600 phone.
From RMStringer

Merry Christmas

 

 

RMStringer

********************

"To open the eternal worlds, to

open the immortal eyes Of man

Inwards, into the worlds of thought, into Eternity". ITN

 

 

 

We want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year. 

J

The RMStringers

 

 

The "longer" you look at this picture, the "more" you see.

Look at the lines the artist used to draw this picture of Christ. There are scenes from Christ's life. Have you ever seen anything like this?

Share this with a friend or two. In the Circle of God's love, God's waiting to use your full potential.

May God Always Bless You.

Some Moon Night Shots...

I took these tonight. It is very windy and partly cloudy. The moon is full. I hope that you like them.










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[Slashdot] Stories for 2007-12-23

======================================================================
For those of you that do not read SLASHDOT, here are the stories that
They are reporting. They are a very good source of "Techie" information.
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Slashdot Daily Newsletter

In this issue:
* Retail Store Scalping Wii Consoles on eBay
* Norway Mandates Government Use of ODF and PDF
* Could An ExtraTerrestrial Find Earth with a Telescope?
* Specs For the New KITT
* NASA's Invention of the Year Award Goes to Synthetic Muscles
* Many Analog TV Watchers Aren't Aware of Upcoming Switchover
* Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard
* New Jersey Judge Shields Anonymous Blogger
* IRS Data Security Still a Concern
* Mystery Company Recruiting Talent With a Puzzle
* FBI Prepares Vast Database of Biometrics
* U.Maine Law Clinic Is First To Fight RIAA
* Analog Cellular Shutdown To Hit Built-In Devices
* GNU Octave 3.0 Released After 11 Years

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| Retail Store Scalping Wii Consoles on eBay |
| from the with-a-name-like-slackers-... dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday December 21, @20:55 (Wii (Games)) |
|

http://games.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/0159248

|
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C0rinthian writes "ArsTechnica reports that the games retailer Slackers
has been keeping their stock of the Nintendo Wii off their store shelves,
and is instead [0]selling the system on eBay for $400-500. (A $150-$250
markup)" This follows their look at the other side of the coin: [1]why
some retailers insist on Wii Bundles.

Discuss this story at:

http://games.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/22/0159248

Links:
0.
http://arstechnica.com/news.ars/post/20071220-exclusive-retail-chain-scalpin
g-wii-allotment-on-ebay.html
1.
http://arstechnica.com/journals/thumbs.ars/2007/12/19/forced-wii-bundles-an-
independent-game-stores-perspective

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| Norway Mandates Government Use of ODF and PDF |
| from the playing-nice-with-everyone dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Friday December 21, @22:30 (Government) |
|

http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/026216

|
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siDDis writes "Earlier this year Slashdot mentioned that Norway was
[0]moving towards mandatory use of ODF and PDF. Now it's official: the
Norwegian government has [1]mandated the use of open document formats
from January 1st, 2009. There are three formats that have been mandated
for all documentation between authorities, users and partners. HTML for
all public information on the Web, PDF for all documents where layout
needs to be preserved and ODF for all documents that the recipient is
supposed to be able to edit. Documents may also be published in other
formats, but they must always be available in either ODF or PDF."

Discuss this story at:

http://politics.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/22/026216

Links:
0. http://politics.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/05/14/1616248&tid=185

1.
http://www.theinquirer.net/gb/inquirer/news/2007/12/20/norway-mandates-gover
nment-odf

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| Could An ExtraTerrestrial Find Earth with a Telescope? |
| from the helloooo-up-there dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday December 22, @00:38 (Space) |
|

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/0454227

|
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[0]Active Seti writes "If aliens were hunting life outside their own
planet, could they peer through the vastness of space and lock onto
[1]Earth as a likely home for life? Researchers say with a roughly
Hubble-sized array observers could measure Earth's 24-hour rotation
period, possibly leading to observations of oceans and the chance of
life. 'They would only be able to see Earth as a single pixel, rather
than resolving it to take a picture,' said Astronomer Eric Ford. 'But
that could be enough for them to identify our planet as one that likely
contains clouds and oceans of liquid water.' The research will be useful
to astronomers designing the next generation of space telescopes on our
planet, because it provides an outline of the capabilities required for
studying the surfaces of Earth-like worlds."

Discuss this story at:

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/22/0454227

Links:
0. http://activeseti.com/

1. http://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2007-12/uof-tca122107.php

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| Specs For the New KITT |
| from the a-shadowy-flight-into-the-dangerous-world dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday December 22, @02:22 (Television) |
|

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/0647213

|
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An anonymous reader writes "The upcoming made-for-TV Knight Rider movie
features an [0]all-new version of the Knight Industries Two Thousand
(KITT). Popular Mechanics has the 'specs' for the original
Hasslehoff-mobile, as well as for the digital-effects enhanced version in
[1]the 2008 production. 'Designer Harald Belker, who has created the
Batmobile for Batman and Robin and a next-gen space shuttle for
Armageddon, came onboard to give the new KITT. a unique look. "The goal
was to make it look more aggressive without being hokey or garish,"
Belker says.'"

Discuss this story at:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/22/0647213

Links:
0. http://www.popularmechanics.com/automotive/new_cars/4237588.html

1. http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/09/29/0621228&tid=129

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| NASA's Invention of the Year Award Goes to Synthetic Muscles |
| from the we're-so-close-to-cyborgs dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday December 22, @04:28 (NASA) |
|

http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/0655243

|
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[0]coondoggie writes "It sounds like something out of a sci-fi movie:
technology that can [1]act like muscle and nerves to expand and contract.
The invention has been named the NASA Government Invention of the Year
for 2007. 'The Macro-Fiber Composite, or MFC, is made up of ceramic
fibers and can be attached to a structure to bend it, reduce vibrations
and monitor force. By applying voltage to the MFC, the ceramic fibers
change shape to expand or contract and turn the resulting force into a
bending or twisting action on the material. MFC technology could also
find its way into inflatable space structures can be used for antennas,
communication satellites, space station trusses, and solar sail support
structures, NASA said.'"

Discuss this story at:

http://science.slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/22/0655243

Links:
0. http://networkworld/

1. http://www.networkworld.com/community/node/23284

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| Many Analog TV Watchers Aren't Aware of Upcoming Switchover |
| from the it's-coming dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday December 22, @06:19 (Television) |
|

http://slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/0657258

|
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A recent poll of TV watchers shows that many Americans aren't aware
[0]the end times are coming for analog broadcast signals. "The survey
found that the group most affected by the analog cutoff -- those with no
cable or satellite service -- are most in the dark about what will happen
to their sets: Only one-third of them had heard that their TVs are set to
stop receiving programs. Of course, there are solutions. Congress is
subsidizing the purchase of digital television receivers. And the cable
TV industry is hoping that this will spur the last holdouts to buy pay
TV."

Discuss this story at:

http://slashdot.org/comments.pl?sid=07/12/22/0657258

Links:
0.
http://bits.blogs.nytimes.com/2007/12/20/rabbit-ear-users-dont-know-the-end-
of-analog-tv-is-near/index.html?ex=1356066000&en=95ec892a3d55c747&ei=5088&pa
rtner=rssnyt&emc=rss

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| Notebook Makers Moving to 4 GB Memory As Standard |
| from the living-in-the-wacky-future dept. |
| posted by Zonk on Saturday December 22, @08:24 (Portables) |
|

http://hardware.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=07/12/22/076211

|
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akintayo writes "Digitimes reports that first-tier notebook manufacturers
are [0]increasing the standard installed memory from the current 1 GB to
4GB. They claim the move is an attempt to shore up the costs of DRAM
chips, which are currently depressed because of a glut in market. The
glut is supposedly due to [1]increased manufacturing capacity and the
slow adoption of Microsoft's Vista operating system. The proposed move is
especially interesting, given that [2]32-bit Vista and XP cannot access 4
GB of memory. They have a practical 3.1 b