1. Select the birthday or the day of death of the deceased individual (below: beneficiary). Additionally, any holiday is suitable because spending tends to increase during holidays in this life as well as in the afterlife.
2. Select a street junction near you. (IMPORTANT: it must be a crossing! Possibly this is related to access, winds, and exit options - more information needed)
3. Draw a circle on the ground for each beneficiary. One circle for all won't cut it.
4. Draw an exit to the circle for the beneficiary to be able to leave quickly after grabbing the cash. The exit should have a box-like shape adjacent to the circle.
5. Burn the certificates inside the circle.
6. Any conversation during the procedure is optional and not mandatory for transfer success.

   The most common fix for the Y2K problem has been to switch to 4-digit
   years.  This fix covers roughly the next 8,000 years (until the year
   9999) by which time, everyone seems convinced that all current
   programs will have been retired.  This is exactly the faulty logic
   and lazy programming practice that led to the current Y2K problem!
   Programmers and designers always assume that their code will
   eventually disappear, but history suggests that code and programs are
   often used well past their intended circumstances.

• a completely revamped security model: we have abandoned our previously mixed pull/push model in favor of a purely pull model. This greatly simplifies the code, and increases security by disallowing any (with one tiny, optional, exception) modification of data on the clients by remote agents. However, this required
• NAT traversal support. This we implemented by adding optional support for NAT traversal via teredo/miredo. This in turn required
• (optional) support for IPv6 in the twisted matrix library, our primary infrastructure library. The extension is available as a (limited, but self-contained) add-on module from our subversion repository.
• To support transparent addressing in the face of a schizophrenic internet infrastructure, agent.POL has implemented a dynamic DNS service that supports IPv6 (note e.g. the clone located at vincent.dyn.kraeutler.net, IPv6 required). He's currently offering that as a free service on majimoto.net. We plan to integrate it more tightly into the angel-app as time and resources permit.
• A revamped configuration subsystem.
• Improved GUI support.
• An extensive code cleanup, resulting in a reasonably clean object model and a rather thorough unit test harness, while actually reducing the size of the code base.

Es ist geschafft! Auch dieses Jahr findet das traditionsreiche Soziologie-Kolloquium statt. Vom 16. bis 18. November 2007 widmen wir uns an der Uni Zürich gemeinsam dem Thema Sterben und Tod in der Soziologie. Es sind alle Soziologie-Studierenden der Schweiz – sowie Interessierte aus anderen Fächern – herzlich willkommen!

Sterben und Tod führten in der Soziologie bisher eher eine Randexistenz. In unserem Studium streifen wir das Lebensende zwar an verschiedenen Orten, z.B. in der Alterssoziologie oder in den Tiefen des SPSS, wenn wir mit Mortalitätsstatistiken hantieren. So hielten es denn auch die Klassiker unseres Fachs. Eine eingehende Beschäftigung mit dem Zusammenhang zwischen Gesellschaft und Tod fand selten statt.

Im Moment zeichnet sich jedoch ein zunehmendes Interesse an dem Thema ab. Es werden heftige Debatten über künstliche Befruchtung und Abtreibung, über Sterbehilfe und den „natürlichen“ Tod geführt, in denen verschiedene Meinungen zu Ethik, Religion und Sozialpolitik aufeinanderprallen. Diese gesellschaftliche Faszination für den Tod liess auch die SoziologInnen nicht kalt. Es wird vermehrt dazu publiziert und in nächster Zukunft könnte sich die Thanatosoziologie als Subdisziplin institutionalisieren. Die Soziologie von Sterben und Tod ist zu neuem Leben erweckt.

Die » Referate und Workshops des Kolloquiums befassen sich mit ganz unterschiedlichen Aspekten der Soziologie des Todes, die auch ganz unterschiedlichen soziologischen Sichtweisen entsprechen. Ebenso wichtig sind gemeinsame Abendessen, die Party am Samstagabend und der Brunch als Ausklang.

Kommt zahlreich! Hirnt mit uns, esst mit uns, feiert mit uns! Vorkenntnisse braucht es keine. Die » Anmeldung erfolgt ganz einfach online.

After a beautiful afternoon hack, we got the angel-app to work with miredo/teredo and IPv6.

CHECK OUT THE URI ON THAT BITCH!!!!

What's the meaning of this you might ask yourself? Well, it means the potential for true p2p networking, which has so far been a real pain in the ANGEL APPLICATION's backside.

Among other things, agent.POL has been able to access my ANGEL APPLICATION instance running on my laptop at home -- behind 2 layers of NAT, no less.

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