Re: The Oldest American?

From: Alberto Monteiro <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Reply-To: Killer Bs Discussion To: Killer Bs Discussion Subject: Re: The Oldest American? Date: Tue, 5 Jul 2005 20:54:56 + Travis Edmunds quoted: > > The discovery of 40,000 years old human footprints in Central Mexico > challenges accepted theor

Re: The Oldest American?

I wrote: > >> This is not news. There are human remains in Brazil that _may_ date from >> 30,000 years ago. Oops. http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news143.htm My Evil Memory is playing tricks again. That fossil was "only" 11,500 years old. BTW: the article says that Luiza is pt_BR version of Lucy,

Re: The Oldest American?

Alberto Monteiro wrote: I wrote: This is not news. There are human remains in Brazil that _may_ date from 30,000 years ago. Oops. http://www.trussel.com/prehist/news143.htm My Evil Memory is playing tricks again. That fossil was "only" 11,500 years old. BTW: the article says that Luiza is

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Re: Windows infected in 12 minutes

On Jul 5, 2005, at 3:32 PM, Russell Chapman wrote: The significant point here is that unless you have access to a second machine with a burner and a reasonable amount of tech-savvy, it takes (a lot) longer than 12 minutes to secure a Windows PC. That assumes one plugs the machine into a net c

Re: Glyph and Glyphability. Need Python reference.

On Jul 5, 2005, at 11:14 AM, Julia Thompson wrote: Cream pie has a noticeably lower density than water. Depends how well it's made. ;) I was just freewheeling there, of course; I'm sure a cream pie would float. Am I going to have to go to Marie Callender's later this week to buy some for t

RE: Windows infected in 12 minutes

> Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa > > I was talking with another nerd recently about some kind of *ultra* > secure Linux that wouldn't even give you root on > installation. So much > for getting 0wned. It's really more of a joke I think, but could be > useful, I guess, for net appliances and other t

Re: The Oldest American?

On Jul 5, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Travis Edmunds quoth: http://www.mexicanfootprints.co.uk/ The discovery of 40,000 years old human footprints in Central Mexico challenges accepted theories on when and how humans first colonised the Americas. The timing, route and origin of the first colonisation

Re: Brin: ontogeny recapitulates pylogeny

On Jul 4, 2005, at 1:45 PM, David Brin wrote: --- Leonard Matusik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I found Brins piece for his 6/12 blogspot so very cool. It was on a RAND publication regarding netCulture. cool. I didn't know that Ronfeldt posted my private musings to him. He didn't; you did:

Re: Windows infected in 12 minutes

On Jul 6, 2005, at 11:50 AM, Horn, John wrote: Behalf Of Warren Ockrassa I was talking with another nerd recently about some kind of *ultra* secure Linux that wouldn't even give you root on installation. So much for getting 0wned. It's really more of a joke I think, but could be useful, I g

RE: Baxter's Manifold: books

Kevin Street wrote: > > Ah, Baxter - one of the modern SF masters! (But why do so many of the > > best writers have names that start with "B"?) > > Pat Mathews wrote: > For the same reason so many great 19th Century composers did? 19th Century composers had names starting with "B" as well? The my

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Re: Windows infected in 12 minutes

On Jul 6, 2005, at 11:28 AM, Warren Ockrassa wrote: I was talking with another nerd recently about some kind of *ultra* secure Linux that wouldn't even give you root on installation. So much for getting 0wned. It's really more of a joke I think, but could be useful, I guess, for net appliances a

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Re: The Oldest American?

At 02:02 PM Wednesday 7/6/2005, Warren Ockrassa wrote: On Jul 5, 2005, at 7:57 AM, Travis Edmunds quoth: http://www.mexicanfootprints.co.uk/ The discovery of 40,000 years old human footprints in Central Mexico challenges accepted theories on when and how humans first colonised the Americas.

Re: Best Comicbook Movie, was Re: Batman [was:] Fare thee well my beautiful Vulcan, was RE: Star Trek signs off tonight....

On 7/4/05, William T Goodall <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On 4 Jul 2005, at 11:56 pm, Leonard Matusik wrote: > >> On Sun, 3 Jul 2005 02:21:08 -0500 Gary Denton wrote: > >> Best comic book movie - Spiderman 2. > > best??? Including Blade2?? Daredevil?? Maybe if Peter Parker would > > take up drin

OT-ish: Web site hosting/building scripts?

OK, you've probably seen these at GeoCities and Tripod and such -- basically I'm looking to find some CGI that allows a domain owner to set up Web pages, or rather open hosting to people who want Web pages, something that includes quotas, pretty strict user control (no bizarre scripts, etc.), a

Re: The Oldest American?

It has been obvious for decades that the colonization of the Americas occurred much earlier than supposed and did not involve walking down an ice-free corridor in Alaska. The problem with any new theory is old professors who made their reputations on the old theories and control research grants an

RE: Baxter's Manifold: books

From: Kevin Street <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Kevin Street wrote: > > Ah, Baxter - one of the modern SF masters! (But why do so many of the > > best writers have names that start with "B"?) > > Pat Mathews wrote: > For the same reason so many great 19th Century composers did? 19th Century composer

Re: OT-ish: Web site hosting/building scripts?

Warren, OK, you've probably seen these at GeoCities and Tripod and such -- basically I'm looking to find some CGI that allows a domain owner to set up Web pages, or rather open hosting to people who want Web pages, something that includes quotas, pretty strict user control (no bizarre scripts

Re: Plot Holes: War of the worlds - SPOILERS

On 7/3/05, Gary Denton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That the best actor in the movie would be about 9? War of the Worlds Correction - worthy of a best supporting actress nomination Dakota Fanning is 11. -- Gary Denton http://www.apollocon.org June 23-25, 2006 Easter Lemming Blogs http://elemmin