I am subject to one god and that god is Time.

] I used Mozilla. Comcast will say (of course), "We only
] support Internet Explorer". It doesn't matter. I put
] "sas.ne2.attbb.net" into both the "HTTP Proxy" and "SSL
] Proxy" fields of the Edit-Preferences-Advanced-Proxies
] section, and put "8000" in both respective "Port" fields.
] You may only need the SSL proxy set. The "No Proxy for"
] field had "localhost, 127.0.0.1" in it, to which I added
] ", .ne2.attbb.net". In Internet Explorer, it is
] apparently a field called "bypass local address", and you
] are supposed to put in "*.ne2.attbb.net". Netscape is
] similar, but you get the idea. You have to try setting
] it, quitting, firing it up again, etc. It worked for me
] after a reboot.

Fucking Comcast. Instead of registering a MAC once, they do some kind of dynamic registering thing where you have to go through proxies etc to "Register" your connection. I have to do this every year or so. It varies. The comcast support chick was giving me alot of flak about Linux, so Fuck her. Basically just setting up proxies so they can see where on the network you are coming from. More of a note to myself when I have to do thing again, but here are the instructions for doing it under Linux

Comcast registering under Linux

... There is so much wrong with this. Are they instructors, or cheap hookers? YOU make the call.

The ladies of Boiler Training

] The "Left Behind" series, the best-selling novels for
] adults in the U.S., enthusiastically depict Jesus
] returning to slaughter everyone who is not a born-again
] Christian. The world's Hindus, Muslims, Jews and
] agnostics, along with many Catholics and Unitarians, are
] heaved into everlasting fire: "Jesus merely raised one
] hand a few inches and . . . they tumbled in, howling and
] screeching."
]
] Gosh, what an uplifting scene!
]
] If Saudi Arabians wrote an Islamic version of this
] series, we would furiously demand that sensible Muslims
] repudiate such hatemongering. We should hold ourselves to
] the same standard.
]
] I accept that Mr. Jenkins and Mr. LaHaye are sincere.
] (They base their conclusions on John 3.) But I've sat
] down in Pakistani and Iraqi mosques with Muslim
] fundamentalists, and they offered the same defense:
] they're just applying God's word.
]
]
] Now we have the hugely profitable "Left Behind" financial
] empire, whose Web site flatly says that the authors
] "think this generation will witness the end of history."
] The site sells every "Left Behind" spinoff imaginable,
] including screen savers, regular prophecies sent to your
] mobile phone, children's versions of the books,
] audiobooks, graphic novels, videos, calendars, music and
] a $6.50-a-month prophesy club. This isn't religion, this
] is brand management.

Apocalypse (Almost) Now

] SINGAPORE (Reuters) - E-mail users inundated with
] unsolicited "spam" messages have reason to hope Microsoft
] Corp. will develop better tools for tackling the problem:
] Bill Gates is suffering more than anyone.
]
] Gates, Microsoft's chairman, gets 4 million e-mails a day
] and is probably the most "spammed" person in the world,
] his Chief Executive Officer Steve Ballmer said Thursday.
]
] However, only a few junk e-mails get through to Gates's
] inbox thanks to anti-spam technology that filters his
] messages, Ballmer said at a Microsoft (Research) event in
] Singapore.

This sounds like bullshit. Maybe bgates@microsoft.com or wahtever gets 4,000,000 emails, but I highly doubt they are running spam filters against all of that. In fact, I'm sure most mail tohis publically available email addresses that isn't from microsoft.com addresses goes to /dev/null (or the sucky Windows equivalent, the recycle bin).

I mean think about it. Lets assume he gets 200 emails that are real emails (10hr workday means 20 an hour, which means 3 minutes an email, if he does nothing but read email. 200 seems like a good estimate). 200/4,000,000 is .005%. Five. Thousandths. of a percent. Contrast that with consider the false-positive rate of most spam filters. Depending on the settings, some important mail is getting lost, or a hell of a lot of spam gets through.

Now granted, alot of the spam will be duplicate, which the filters will grab easily. Imagine, there is a cluster of windows machines (can windows even cluster?) that do nothing but spam filter Gates email. He might as well pay an intern to manually sort it after some basic filtering is done.

Gates gets 4 million emails, A Day!

] Hybrid has developed an interace solution for the demise
] of the xmPCR. With this cable and our software you will
] once again be able listen to XM satellite radio in your
] home or in your car using the included Hybrid eXeM
] interface along with the xmDirect. This will work with
] Timetrax version 2.5 but not previous versions, other
] than timetrax all other existing xmPCR software will not
] work with this solution, However The SDK is available for
] developers that want to continue using xm radio within
] their applications.

Hardware hacking is 1337

Company offers XM Hack to listen on a PC

] Charges have been dropped against a woman who paid for
] clothes with a fake $200 bill that featured President
] Bush's picture and the serial number DUBYA4U2001.
]
] Westmoreland County prosecutors dropped all charges
] Friday against Deborah L. Trautwine, 51, after she paid
] the store in real currency.
]
] Trautwine wasn't aware that the bill wasn't actual legal
] tender, said her attorney, Harry Smail Jr.
]
] A clerk at a Fashion Bug clothing store also apparently
] was fooled by the funny money.
]
] She gave Trautwine $100.58 in change following an August
] transaction.

Charges dropped in bogus $200 Bush bill

] Initiator Edit Partyprestissimogmail.com
] Country Report party trollingUnited States of
] America
] Location Somewhere in the city
] Atlanta, GA
] US
] Info! Date: Saturday following release
] Location: If someone can host 64 people for an actual
] party (as opposed to a spontaneous mass eating out by
] firefox users), that'd be great. I'm sure people wouldn't
] mind chipping in a bit to defray any costs involved. If
] nobody can, we'll land on a restaurant or other venue
] Real Soon Now and post the info here. If anyone has
] connections to a place in the city, you're also
] encouraged to let me know. If people have ideas for
] venues, let me know.

Mozillatlanta '04: Firefox 1.0 Release party

] Without referring to specific adverse rulings on the
] treatment of detainees or enemy combatants, Ashcroft
] blasted "activist" judges for encroaching on the powers
] that he insists belong solely to the president in
] wartime.
]
] "The danger I see here is that intrusive judicial
] oversight and second-guessing of presidential
] determinations in these critical areas can put at risk
] the very security of our nation in a time of war,"
] Ashcroft said.

Anyone wish he was staying as AG?

Ashcroft: 'Activist' judges can put nation's security at risk

] RFC 1984 - IAB and IESG Statement on Cryptographic
] Technology and the Internet

HA! RFC 1984 is an explaination why the public should have strong encryption to protect itself.

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