* Fadz's Hispanic Television Commerical Archive
Heheheh, this is real nice ;) ftp://nofadz.com/pub/nofadz/mpeg/hispanic_commercials/

Also hit NoFaDz for a totally hilarious mpg about a guy having a bad day... ;)

* The Dukes of Hazzard Racing
I grew up on The Dukes Of Hazard, and I used to want to be one of the Duke boys (or at least cooter so I could look at Daisy's...er Anyways now it's going to be a racing game, and I'm sorta stoked, I hope it plays well. http://www.3dracing.net/screenshots/general_lee.html

* House Likely To Mandate Net Filtering
So far it's only talked about to restrict content on schools, which is fine giving that the kiddies aren't all aware of what the *real world* is all about. Proof are those idiots in Littleton, morons with no grip on reality.... http://www.news.com/News/Item/0,4,38018,00.html?st.ne.fd.gif.j

* The 3DAP Action Gaming Test
Think you know alot about action games? 3DAP Action Planet has a test to find out. http://www.3dap.com/articles/AGT/

* Frigate 1.08
Yet another cool Explorer file manager replacement for all you shell enhancers out there. http://helmsman.hypermart.net/

* #112 WOMEN ARE FREAKS
Your girlfriend ever call you up and just start arguing? Did she ever read something you said, and interpret her own way (very different than you meant it)? Did she ever work herself into a frenzy over something SHE misinterpreted? I bet you can say yes to at least one....

* RINE'S LINK OF THE DAY
Luke's aunt in Star Wars, Aunt Beru has her own website, no so informative as amusing. Aunt Beru's Place
 
 

THURSDAY, JUNE 17, 1999

* Ubermachine (12:50 PM EST)
And let us not forget Wednesday is the day that the hard slack...er... working Fraggy posts her new MP3 list-du-jour... Go get some happy tunes: Ubermachine

* :) (12:35 PM EST)
Things have been good latley, DIVX is dead, MP3 players are legal, no ban on violent games etc, and I've got more than $5. God, I bet they drop a nuke on us today.... Or tomorrow.

* U.S. House Rejects Youth Ban On Violent Media
That's the title of the article over on Yahoo, it's good news for all of us violence worshippers ;)

'...argued that just changing gun laws is too narrow an approach. He said depictions of torture, flagellation, mutilation and rape are ``toxically poisoning our kids' minds'' and contended that if sexually graphic materials can be withheld from children, explicitly violent ones could be too.

But many lawmakers in both parties, while sharing Hyde's distaste for the violence, said his measure reached too far and would be impractical and unconstitutional.

``We would have a police force of what is violent. Who would set the guidelines?'' said Florida Republican Mark Foley. ``What's the first offense? 'Home Alone'? 'Ben Hur'? 'Private Ryan'?'''

Read the happy news: http://biz.yahoo.com/rf/990616/blg.html

* Human Embryo Cloned.
Gah, didn't they learn from Star Wars? I'll say that I feel cloning human life is wrong, these creatures can have no soul, and are stock parts for surgery, it reminds me of the Strogg.... Read this scary news: http://news.bbc.co.uk/low/english/sci/tech/newsid_371000/371378.stm

* Fadz Returned From Grave
My lazy host Fadz has returned to the updaing scene after moving to his new 'rad' location. He says he has a better connection now... he needs it ;) NoFaDz

* AOL, Netscape And Sun Aiming To Topple M$ (6:05 AM EST)
These three titans are laying some vague plans to make their own web-based OS to take over all aspects of computers and the net. They together are probably one of the top contenders in the ring with Micro$oft, what with Steve Jobs alone able to buy small countries with his weekend cash :) Now if they start supporting Linux, M$ will be dead sooner than you can say monopoly... But would an all-encompassing AOL be better??? A cool quote from the Netscape vice-pres:

Read the whole story HERE. (the url is longer than this page ;)

* Support Project Bovine
- What is it?
The Bovine RC5-64 Project is a project of distributed.net. It was formed in March of 1997 to tackle contests associated with RSA Data Security, Inc.'s Secret Key Challenge. Through distributed.net the Bovine Project provides and maintains the software and network infrastructure required to distribute RC5-64 keyblocks to participating computers all over the world.

The Secret-Key Challenge consists of thirteen separate but similar contests. Having successfully completed the RC5-32/12/7 contest (RC5-56) in October of 1997, the Bovine Project is now concentrating its resources on tackling the
RC5-32/12/8 contest (RC5-64). The task involves testing (at most) 2^64 (18,446,744,073,709,551,616) keys to find the one that properly decrypts the contest message. This is a monumental undertaking that will require an enormous amount of computing power to succeed. Bovine participants from all over the internet provide that power in the form of spare CPU cycles on their own personal computers. Together they have helped to make the Bovine Project the largest and most powerful distributed computer on Earth!

- Why do it?
To do something with all this computing power. After finishing the RC5-56 contest the RC5-64 contest was a natural next step because the existing client code base could be very easily converted to run RC5-64. Instead of making a mad rush to push the next generation, general purpose clients out the door, we decided to make the small alterations necessary to allow the existing clients to participate in the 64 bit contest as soon as possible. Providing new client software quickly helped maintain the interest of our large number of volunteers by providing a task we could continue to work on as a group.

To prove that 64-bit encryption is insufficient. A loosely organized group of people on the internet (us!) deciphered an RC5-56 encrypted message in their spare time. That might be sufficient reason for the U.S. government to rethink their current polices on encryption technology. Decrypting an RC5-64 encrypted message (256 times harder to do) can only strengthen that argument.

To explore the feasibility of cooperative networked multiprocessing  It's fascinating to see how easy (and difficult) it has been to band together this many computers, with this many operating systems, in so many time zones and put them all to work on a common computing task.

Because it's fun. Perhaps in the same way that writing a tic-tac-toe program in sendmail.cf is fun to some people, it's been a rewarding diversion for everyone involved.

Because you can win money! There is a 10,000 dollar (U.S.) prize for the winner of this contest. After winning the RC5-56 contest we gave $1,000 to the owner of the computer that actually found the winning key, we kept $1,000 for ourselves and we donated the remaining $8,000 to Project Gutenberg. It has not yet been decided how the proceeds from the RC5-64 contest will be distributed but we expect it will be similar. Feel free to make suggestions on the mailing lists or in EFNet #distributed.

I just started and will be joinging the User Friendly team. If you would like to participate and taker a chance at winning $1,000 or so, hit the FAQ on Distributed.net: http://www.distributed.net/FAQ/rc5-64-faq.html

* Jar Jar Won't Die...
From Joe Siegler's (3D Realms / Apogee) .plan file:

And you thought the end of Phantom Menace was the end of Jar-Jar Binks?  Think again.  He's gonna be back in Episode II, per an interview with George Lucas.  If you watched the special on Fox about the special effects in Star Wars, Lucas said that Jar Jar will "probably" return in the next one.

Let the flames begin.  :)

* Bobby D. Humor
"The leading cause of divorce is marriage."
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REALLY BAD
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1) The Answer: Disgruntled.
   The Question: What is a pig with laryngitis?

2) The Answer: Climate.
   The Question: What do people do after setting up a ladder?

3) The Answer: Wisdom teeth.
   The Question: Name two things you won't find in a trailer park.
 

Morning Differences:
Men and women are different in the morning. The men wake up aroused in the morning. We can't help it. We just wake up and  we want you. And the women are thinking, 'How can he want me  the way I look in the morning?' It's because we can't see you. We have no blood anywhere near our optic nerve.

Pregnancy:
It's weird when pregnant women feel the baby kicking. They say, 'Oh my god. He's kicking. Do you wanna feel it?' I always feel awkward reaching over there.  Come on! It's weird to ask someone to feel your stomach. I don't do that when I have gas."Oh my god...give me your hand...It won't be long now..."

* More On Voyager
Mike Gummelt
Programmer, Project 3       Raven Software

There's:
Lt(jg) Les Foster - the team leader.
Ensign Alexander Munro - the scout and second in command of the Hazard Team(you).
Ensign Telsia - the Orion female sniper/scout (your love interest).
Crewman Rick Beissman - the heavy weapons specialist.
Crewman Austin Chang - the demolitionist.
Crewman Sitar - the female Vulcan medic.
Crewman Chell - the Bolian technician.
Plus plenty of "redshirts".  As the game progresses, your character becomes more and more important in both duties and in the plot.

* #111 THERE'S NO SUCH THING AS A FREE BLOWJOB....
A variation of an old saying... More modern I think ;)

* RINE'S LINK OF THE DAY
On a Christmas in like 1982(?) I got my Atari 2600. I sat and played Donkey Kong for HOURS and got blisters all over my hands (especially the thumbs). Gamecenter has posted a stroll through some of the popular titles of this noble gaming system. Check out The Atari 2600 In 1999.