Bob Blaylock
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See my answer in this other thread.
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I'll bet that when he goes to the dentist to have his teeth worked on, he refuses to accept anethesia or any other medicine, because he wants to transcend dental medication.
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Some devices are much more demanding on batteries than other devices. Got a digital camera? Try putting the “dead” batteries from that in your GPS.
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Does a waymark need maintenance???
Sometimes waymarks will need 'maintenance'.
Things happen which could require changes to the waymark page. A statue can be moved or destroyed. A scenic overlook can suddenly be marked off limits by the forest rangers. A Yellow Arrow sticker could get peeled off and discarded. A mountain peak could shift as the result of a volcanic eruption. A McDonald's could go out of business. In each of these situations, the waymark page would need to be updated to reflect the situation.
Ok, maybe a McDonald's can't go out of business. But I feel pretty good about the other examples I provided.
A McDonalds could go out of business if it were located on a mountain peak that shifted as the result of a volcanic eruption. I suppose if McDonalds was to suddenly be marked off limits by the forest rangers, then it might go out of business as well.
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I refer to my Unexpected “Small Town” waymark. Apparently, this was a small town that got swallowed up by a huge metropolitan area that grew around it. It makes for a rather startling effect; one moment, you're driving through the huge metrolpolis; then suddenly, you're in what has all the appearance of being a small town, out in the middle of nowhere; and then, before you know it, you're back in the metropolis.
This can't be the only place this has happened. I think a category for such unexpected “small towns”, buried deep within huge, densely-populated metropolitan areas would be good.
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When people were recommending switching to another browser, I think the point was to forestall future problems.
The point is actually to forestall current problems. Firefox works well because it doesn't have the same market share - therefore the exploits don't cause as much widespread mayhem. If Firefox took the lead you'd see more exploits applied to that browser.
I've made this point somewhere else on this forum.
IE running under Windows provides a rather exceptional security vulnerability that simply doesn't exist for any other combination of browser and operating system.
Consider Microsoft's Windows Update web site. If you are running IE under Windows, and you visit that site, it will allow you to check to see if there are any updates to Windows that you need installed, and if so, you can download and install them, from the browser. Think about what this means. IE has the ability to download and install alterations to the OS itself. If it can download and install legitimate Windows Updates from Microsoft, then it can just as easily download and install any kind of malware from any web site that tries to serve it up.
This is THE reason — and not anything to do with market share — that it is IE under Windows that is so heavily targeted by this kind of malware. No other browser, and no other operating system, offers the sort of security holes that are this easily exploited to such effect.
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Jeremy, please take a look at how the Waymarking pages are rendering under iCab.
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See this thread.
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This happens all to often. We do not refer to them as "pirates" because that title carrys a certain amount of respect. Since they deserve no respect, the preferred term for these folks is "cache maggot"
Even fly larvae are deserving of more respect than the insult of being likened to these sort of miscreants.
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.GPX files have much more detail in them than .LOC files.
Currently, it seems to me that the only way to get .GPX files is either via a Pocket Query, or else by clicking the .GPX icon on an individual cache page.
When I do any cache search, there are checkboxes along the side I can use to select certain caches; and then, when I have selected a bunch, I can click a button near the bottom of the search results to download a .LOC of all the selected caches.
I'd like to be able to similarly download a .GPX of all the selected caches, with all the detail that .GPX files contain.
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Ask me what I think of how they treat developers that actually try to support their random protocol combinations. Go ahead - Ask me...
What do you think of how they treat developers that actually try to support their random protocol combinations?
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I'm running a beige G3 (the oldest machine that is officially capable of running any version of MacOS X) running MacOS X 10.2.8 (the last version that is officially supported on the beige G3), and using a straight serial interface to my original yellow eTrex.
If your software works at all well for me, I doubt if you'll have much trouble getting me to pay $10 for it, at least. $20 if I find it really useful.
I'd be really thrilled if you could find a solution to the handshaking problem that I discuss here. I can work around it, but it's annoying.
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In Sweden do people have about 5 weeks paid vacation. Almost free healthcare - you pay like an entrance fee somewhere around $11, and everything is for free. Xray, surgery and so on... Medicine are sub-sidary. If you are elderly and/or handicaped, you can get free taxirides or pay like $3 for each ride.
If you are gonna have a baby, the mother can go home 2 moths before expected labour if she wants and have a demanding work. Of course paid!
When the baby is born do the father have 10 days paid withint he first month or so. The company can't refuse you take this time off - it is in the law book!
The parents have a total of 600 days paid to stay home with the newborn. You can split the days almost however you want.
If the company you works for goes bankrupt, the government will pay you money for a few months until you find a new work. If you get unemployed - don't worry. The government will pay your flat etc.
Nothing is free. You pay much, much, much more in taxes to support these “free” benefits than you would pay for them if you paid for them directly out of your own pocket. Socialism is probably the single biggest, foulest, and most oppressive scam ever devised by Mankind; a way to make people almost complete slaves to the government without even realizing that they are enslaved.
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The predominant religion is Christianity, in which most denominations think of Sunday as the Sabbath (the seventh day).
That's not quite correct. Saturday is, and has always been, the seventh day. Jews, Moslems, and a few scattered Christian sects (most notably, those that have “Seventh Day” as part of their name) still observe Saturday as the Sabbath. At some point in the first century or two AD, most of Christianity switched to observing the Sabbath on the first day, rather than the seventh. I'm not entirely clear on why, when, or how this change occurred, but I think it has something to do with Christ having been resurrected on that day.
I note that in some languages, the word for the day that we call Saturday bears an obvious relationship to the word Sabbath. For example, in Spanish, Saturday is called “Sabado”.
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When the rubber strip on my eTrex came loose, I first tried using a product called “Shoe Goo” to glue it back. The rubber material in this strip is the very first thing I have ever found that Shoe Goo fails to stick very well to. It even sticks well to Teflon, but not to the rubbery material used on my eTrex.
The next thing I tried was plain old RTV silicone rubber, which seems to have worked very well. More than a year later, the strip is still firmly in place.
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Lip balm (left in one of my own caches by a very experienced cacher (well over 1000 finds) who really ought to have known better)
I have found used lipbalm in a cache and thought "???!!!"
But what's wrong with a brand new, sealed one? Unscented, of course.
I've never seen or heard of truly unscented/unflavored lip balm. I suppose such a thing probably exists from some “back–to–nature–kook” source that exchews the addition of any artificial flavors or colorings; but every lip balm I have ever encounted did possess some prominent scent/flavor that is likely to attract animals that will damage the cache in order to get to it.
Aside from that, I think it's a very bad idea to put anything in or on one's mouth with such little reliable knowledge of where it's been, who's had it, and what's been done to it.
The lip balm that was left in my cache was not in the usual tube, but in a small jar. It was obvious that it had been opened, and some of it used. There was no way I was going to use it, nor was I going to risk being held in any way responsible for what might happen if someone else — having found it in my cache — used it. At the very first opportunity, I transferred it from my cache to the nearest appropriate trash receptacle.
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Things I have personally found in caches, that I thought didn't belong:
- A cigar (tobacco stinks, and the stench tends to stick tenaciously to everything it touches.
) - Packets of candy.
- Tea bags
- Burt's Bees Cuticle Creme
- Lip balm (left in one of my own caches by a very experienced cacher (well over 1000 finds) who really ought to have known better)
- Crayons in a cache that got so hot inside that they melted all over the place and ruined some of the other contents. (This was a rather short-lived cache, in a dark container out in the sunlight, in a time and place where ambient air temperature was routinely going over 100°F.)
- A cigar (tobacco stinks, and the stench tends to stick tenaciously to everything it touches.
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1. A person can log only one find per Geocaching.com approved cache!
Who enforces this new rule?
If we really thought we needed such a rule, then it seems to me that it'd be trivial for the Geocaching.com web site to disallow logging any find on a cache from an account that has already previously logged a find on that same cache.
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There is nothing that looks more suspicious than someone who is trying to avoid looking suspicious.
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Unfortunately, there is something that many cache hiders don't quite seem to get. Hide–A-Keys are not weatherproof. If you use one as a cache container, where it will be exposed to the elements, the log book will get wet, and most likely will be ruined. Wrapping it in a plastic bag really doesn't help much.
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You can see the picture of Jeremy that started it all…
…right here.
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I've had it in mind, but have yet to do, to hide a cache and in the encrypted hint, include a long rambling bunch of text that looks like it might contain relevant clues; the very last sentence would read something like “I hope you didn't spend a lot of time decoding this by hand, because this ‘hint’ doesn't tell you anything useful.”
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How many GPS-equipped cell phones allow the user to access the GPS information? My Kyocera KE433 does not.
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On the other hand, I wouldn't be opposed to a requirement that stated that your first hide had to be a traditional cache (as opposed to a multi or mystery).
There go my two caches.
18 Wheel Caching
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See my answer in this other thread.